B.T. Gregory Tortured By Burglars: Van Used To Transport Disabled Son Stolen (VIDEO)

A 70-year-old man says two burglars bound him and his disabled son with duct tape, tortured him with a red-hot spoon to secure a PIN number to access his bank account, and threatened him and the 17-year-old with guns before fleeing with the specially-accessible van he relies on to transport the wheelchair-bound teenager.

After running to a nearby hot dog stand to grab a snack for his son, B.T. Gregory says he returned to his high-rise North Side apartment to find two armed burglars in his home, ABC Chicago reports.

"I saw the light on in my bedroom and I said, 'Why is my light on?' and I saw the guys come out with a gun," Gregory told ABC. "They put a gun to my head and said 'Where's the money, where's the money?' They burned me with a spoon. They said, 'We're going to make you tell.'"

Gregory says the burglars ransacked his home, struck him and his son, and threatened to kill them both before fleeing with $300 cash, jewelry and other possessions, including the keys to the family's van, which was retrofitted to fit Herron's wheelchair, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Pleasure Herron, a special education student at Whitney Young High School, has cerebral palsy. Gregory says its possible his son unknowingly let the burglars into their secured building, but said it would be easy for anyone to sneak into the high-rise by following another resident through the locked doors.

Gregory suspects the burglars were targeting someone else, based on comments they made about a woman he'd never heard of who they believed had wronged them, CBS Chicago reports.

"It makes no sense," he told CBS. "I hardly have anything, and what I do have is to support my son."