A quiet Sunday afternoon turned violent for a Brandon family when armed intruders kicked down a door in their East End home.          

The masked men forced their way in and pointed a gun at one of the people inside.        

Brandon police believe it may be connected to another incident, where a house in the same area was riddled with bullets. 

The husband and wife don't want to be identified, but they agreed to share the harrowing details with CTV News of the incident, which has left them shaken.

"There's a million ways it could've went way worse," the husband said. 

He told CTV two men wearing balaclavas and carrying guns kicked down his back door around 4 p.m. and threatened him while his wife and 14-month-old daughter were in the house.

"The guy had a gun, he pointed it right at me," the husband said.

Once inside the house, the husband said the intruders ordered him to get down on the ground.  He said one of the men yelled at him, "do you want to get shot."

Two other men were at the front pounding on that door.  With her little girl in the living room, the wife wouldn't let them in.

Meantime, the husband said instead of getting on the floor he stood in the entrance to the living room to try and protect his family and pleaded for the intruders to leave.

He told them, "I got a kid in here, a little baby."

That’s when the men left without hurting them and the couple called Brandon police.

About half an hour later while officers were at their house investigating, the couple and police heard the sound of gunshots ring out and they weren't the only ones to hear it.

Officers rushed to a home a little more than a block away on Lorne Avenue East.  Investigators said it was hit with around 30 bullets.  One woman who was inside at the time wasn't hurt.

Alexis Sawchuk and her family live nearby.  She said the whole situation is shocking and hits too close to home

"You wouldn't think it would be gunshots, that many, at four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon,” said Sawchuk.  “It was just unreal.  It was just a lot – there were a lot of shots."

A white SUV which a witness saw leave the scene of the armed break and enter was also spotted by police near the house that was shot up.

Police tracked down the vehicle and arrested two men from Brandon, 28 and 30, in connection with the break and enter.

Investigators believe the two incidents may be linked. 

"Our investigators are still trying to tie that together with the two people we have in custody,” said Brandon Police Service Sgt. Bill Brown.  “The other two [suspects] are still outstanding.  The reason why it appears there is some connection or they were looking for someone is a big part of the investigation right now."

The family whose house was broken into hopes to get those answers to what exactly happened.

"That's going to haunt me forever," the husband said.  "Why did they come here, I'll never know."

Police have recovered a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle.

Brandon police are still looking for two other suspects.

A witness saw two suspects leave the scene of the break and enter in a black four-door car.