The Connecticut home of a former school secretary caught on camera berating black shoppers in front of children earlier this month has been burglarized — and she claims the racist video made her a target.
An emotional Corrine Terrone, 40, said she’s still reeling from Monday’s burglary at her New Haven home, where someone stole copper piping from inside the residence and its garage after she left in the morning.
Terrone believes the incident was a direct response to the comments she made on March 16 at a grocery store in New Haven, where she was recorded yelling racial slurs at black shoppers in front of two young children during a heated dispute. Terrone, who repeatedly shouted the N-word and spat at one black shopper, later resigned from her post as a secretary for Hamden Public Schools in the aftermath of the viral footage.
“I’m sure it has to do with the comments that I made when the man interfered with my family and I when we were shopping,” Terrone told The Post of the burglary. “But I would like my children and their sweet hearts to be left alone. I would like my family to be left alone. You want to blame someone? Blame me, but don’t go after my family.”
Terrone said New Haven police brass denied a request by responding officers who were “extremely respectful” to fingerprint her home after the burglary, failing to fully investigate the crime.
“They refused to send somebody down to do fingerprints,” Terrone told The Post. “And that infuriates me and that scares me.”
New Haven police told The Post that the incident is part of an ongoing investigation and a sergeant plans to personally update Terrone on the situation.
Terrone, who has lived at the home for 20 years, would not discuss the ugly ShopRite confrontation that led to the loss of her job, as well as other items she said were stolen from her home, citing the advice of an attorney. She also refused to confirm that the young girls who accompanied her during the incident are her daughters.
“I cannot discuss how I feel about that incident,” she said. “I just want my kids left alone.”
Terrone said she had been “fearful” for her safety since she was forced to resign after footage of the confrontation went viral. As of Thursday, one video of the incident had been shared more than 116,000 times.
“The language the employee used in the video is in conflict with the values of the Hamden Public School System,” district officials said in a statement announcing her resignation. “Someone who will use that sort of language in any setting, whether public or private, is not someone we want anywhere near our children.”
Terrone said she has discussed safety precautions with her family, especially her children, following Monday’s burglary. She refused to comment on whether she had any inklings of possible suspects or detail threats she had received prior to the incident.
“I will not allow any of them to be harmed and I will respond how I see fit,” Terrone told The Post. “I just want my kids left alone.”




