A brazen burglary in Old Sacramento was carried out just after sunrise Saturday morning, with the store owners saying a man sawed through a wall and kicked his way inside Super Silver Sacramento.

"We hated waking up to this. It was terrible," said manager Mary Francis Chacon.

Around 7:20 a.m. Saturday, Super Silver's alarms were triggered.

"We were alerted as soon as he popped in due to our motion detectors and we were able to come out around 7:30, but he was already long gone by then," said Chacon.

Employees say hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise was stolen, just hours before the neighborhood opened up to families and tourists.

"Coming in today, we all mentioned how there is that energy lingering, more so, we feel assaulted. Our spirits hurt," said Chacon. "It hurt

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