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Cops yesterday nabbed four suspects in terrifying Long Island home invasion — capping off a wild day that sent six people to the hospital and included a massive manhunt, a chase and a shootout in front of a school.
The men, whose names hadn’t been released late yesterday, allegedly broke into a Bellmore home, tied up the residents and threatened to kill them if they didn’t fork over money.
“All of a sudden, there was a guy with a knife to my throat,’’ said Ghulam Sumra, 63, who had been sleeping before 9 a.m. when the men invaded the home he shares with his brother.
“He said, ‘Give me your money!’ ” said Sumra. “He said, ‘Don’t move, I’ll kill you.’ ”
The intruders were interrupted when Sumra’s nephew unexpectedly returned home.
“They were all tied up and gagged,’’ Haris Sumra, 20, said of his uncle, mom, dad and a friend.
“My mother was bleeding from her nose. They punched her,’’ he said. “They beat my dad up, too.’’
Haris said he was knocking at the front door when a man opened it and tried to yank him inside. He broke free and ran.
“I was in the street waving my arms at cars, trying to get somebody to stop,’’ he said. “Two black guys came out of my front door and a Spanish guy came out the side door.”
A fourth man, he said, had been sitting outside the house in a white Crown Victoria, talking on a cellphone.
As Sumra and others called 911, the foursome sped off in the Crown Vic.
Police launched a full-on manhunt, calling in helicopters and canine units to help.
Two of the men were arrested after leading cops on a high-speed chase that ended with bullets flying near Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick, said Nassau County Detective Lt. Kevin Smith.
One was arrested in the parking lot of a Wantagh car dealership, where he dumped the bullet-ridden getaway car.
The fourth remained at large until mid-afternoon, when he tried to flee by cab.
The taxi driver said the suspect called for a ride from a Wantagh bar — called Shooters.
“The guy said he was going to Brooklyn,” said driver James Stilley, 32.
Police, lights flashing and sirens blaring, pulled Stilley’s cab over near Exit 21 on the Southern State Parkway near Roosevelt.
“Three officers came out with their guns, yelling, ‘Freeze!’ ” Stilley said.
The mayhem sent three of the victims, one police officer and two of the suspects to Nassau University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Charges against the four men were still pending yesterday.