(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Video footage captured several suspects breaking into a local coffee shop in Colorado Springs, and now police are trying to find the people responsible.

Tiny House Coffee has been steadily growing since owner and flight attendant Kanzetta Johnson opened it two-and-a-half years ago.

“I’ve always wanted to open a shop,” Johnson said. “I grew up in Alaska, and drive-thru’s like this are all over. And it was the first job I had when I was 15. And I’ve just done it off and on for like the last 12 years… it’s something I love.”

Johnson said she found the business for sale on Facebook Marketplace in Peyton.

“It turns out that he was from Alaska, too,” Johnson said. “And then I was like, ‘okay, I have to have this place.'”

The next step was finding a place to put it. The parking lot off North Hancock Avenue near East Filmore Street seemed like the obvious choice, since it was nearby where she lived and she liked the neighborhood.

Tiny House Coffee is located on 3025 N Hancock Ave (Courtesy FOX21 Chief Photojournalist Dez Rowe).

“Then I ended up being next door to the most amazing people, and they have helped me grow my business so much more than I could have expected,” Johnson said.

One of those people was Emaya Hoff, who worked as an office manager in a nearby business.

“One day, Kanzetta came over into the building next door, which is where I worked for a while as the office manager, and she asked if she could put a coffee shop in the parking lot,” Hoff said. “So then, I would come over here. Her and I became really good friends, and I would kind of help out during my lunch break if she needed to, like, go to the store or anything like that.”

Tiny House Coffee specializes in affordable drinks to cater to all customers’ needs (Courtesy FOX21 Chief Photojournalist Dez Rowe).

Eventually, Tiny House Coffee’s quaint and charming atmosphere drew Hoff in full time.

“I think a big thing about our coffee shop is we’re cheaper than a lot of other places. Our main priority is to get coffee to you, to get drinks to you that you like rather than killing your pocket over it,” Hoff said. “I really like the customer base that we’ve created. Just seeing it over the years. We had like a couple of regulars when we first started, and now there’s tons of people who I see every single time I work a shift. It’s really just nice to see that they keep coming back and they like our coffee.”

But the sweet, family atmosphere was temporarily shattered on Sept. 17. Hoff said she was coming into work early in the morning, and immediately sensed something was wrong.

“The door looked a little weird,” she said. “I got someone else to walk down here with me, and I walked in and it was really sad to see the entire espresso machine was gone.”

Their espresso machine is the backbone of the company, and without it, they were not able to make hot drinks for customers, meaning this was an enormous blow to the little shop.

“I get my beans from Barista Espresso. I have since the day I opened. Glenn and Becky are the most fantastic people,” Johnson said. “So, I was here kind of like cleaning up, like looking at the the damage that was done. And the owner of Barista, she came by it just to get a coffee. She’s like, ‘I was in the neighborhood and I came to get a drink.’ And I was like, ‘Well I can’t make you a drink. My espresso machine was stolen.'”

Johnson said after she left, it wasn’t five minutes later when Glenn called her.

“And he’s like, ‘I’m going to bring you one.’ And I was like, ‘What’? And he’s like, ‘Yeah, we’ll let you borrow it.’ I was like, ‘Do you do that?’ And he said, ‘No, but you’re an amazing customer and we love you and we have to take care of you,'” Johnson said. “The next day, literally, he showed up. He installed it all.”

Johnson said she was nervous they could be broken into again with their new espresso machine on loan to them. Hoff started a fundraiser to help them buy their own in the meantime, which has already garnered nearly $2,000.

But the fears of another break-in became reality on Oct. 5.

Johnson said she was in Alaska on a trip and got a notification on her phone from one of the cameras they installed. Her heart sank when she saw what it was.

Watch the security footage from the coffee shop:

Four people, who looked to be teenagers, were kicking down her door. They made it inside and began knocking supplies off the shelves and raiding the fridge, all while Johnson watched on helplessly.

“I called the police. I did like the steps that I needed to do. I called the people who live in the neighborhood, but like, nobody answered cause it was the middle of the night,” Johnson said. “I just watched. It was just like a hopeless feeling to just see somebody, it’s just like very invasive. And maybe they didn’t really steal much — they kind of just vandalized.”

Hoff once again opened the coffee shop the next morning to see the aftermath.

“Everything was on the ground and the espresso machine was on, which was really unfortunate. It was like 90 degrees in here and the windows were fogged up,” Hoff said.

Johnson said with some of the money raised through the GoFundMe, they were able to bolster security even more, which included adding reinforced doors and windows to the shop. With how much they have raised, and from all the support they have seen from their customer base, Johnson said it has been humbling to witness.

“It’s just an overwhelming amount of support, and it is very easy to just be like, ‘okay, never mind. Like, I’m done with this. It’s too much.’ But when there’s so many people rooting for you, like you can’t do that,” Johnson said. “There’s just a lot of amazing people around me, and I have to remember to focus on that instead of just the negative things that happen. Because like, for every negative thing, there’s like a million happy, amazing, beautiful things that happen. And it’s easy to focus on the bad ones. But with the best customers and like a great community, it’s easier to start focusing on the positives.”

In the meantime, the Colorado Springs Police Department said this is still an active and ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is asked to give them a call at (719) 444-7000.