Police are investigating a possible home invasion in Edison, NJ on Oct. 31, 2014. (credit: CBS2)

EDISON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — An Edison, New Jersey family remained shocked and terrified Friday, following a home invasion that police said may be connected to a series of violent break-ins in Middlesex County.

As CBS2’s Janelle Burrell reported, Rajesh Singh said three armed masked men forced their way into his home on Netherwood Circle as his wife took out the trash just before midnight Thursday night.

He said the intruders then bound Singh, his wife and their kids with duct tape and put them out on the kitchen floor.

“Whatever you want, take it and go,” Singh recalled saying. “Just don’t hurt anybody.”

Those words were all Singh could think of as the masked men held him at gunpoint, using duct tape to tie him up along with his wife and three children – the youngest just 3 years old.

“My daughters were sleeping but they pulled them down also and tied them up also,” Singh told 1010 WINS’ Al Jones.

The trio then ransacked the home, taking jewelry, cash and other items, Singh said.

“They just did our house upside down basically,” Singh told WCBS 880’s Levon Putney.