A Woodland Hills family was held captive by a suspect who forced them into a closet and boarded up the doors.

Los Angeles County prosecutors allege the masked man was no stranger to the family.

Lara Starr had just walked in through the door when she saw a masked man holding a gun inside her Woodland Hills home.

Starr assumed this was part of a game called Water Assassins that her son, a high school senior, played with his classmates.

“It wasn’t totally unusual for kids to be creeping around our house with big squirt guns,” she said.

Starr testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday in a Van Nuys courtroom, where she described a bizarre and disturbing series of events that began the afternoon of March 3.

She, her son and husband were held captive by a man who forced them into a close

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