Police: Home Invasion Suspect Breaks Into 2 Apartments, Several Shots Fired
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia police are searching for a man who broke into two apartments early Wednesday morning and pistol-whipped and terrorized a man and a woman inside.
It happened just before 4 a.m. on the 200 block of W. Roosevelt Blvd in Feltonville.
Moses Lawrence told Eyewitness News he was asleep when a Hispanic man broke into his apartment.
"He was beating me in my head with the gun," he said. "'Where the money at, where the money at?' I said, 'I don't got the money!' He said, 'Where the drugs at? Where the drugs at?' I'm like, 'What drugs?'"
Lawrence said he played dead as the man ransacked his apartment. When he saw an opportunity, he ran out into the street for help.
"I was just trying to run for my life," he said. "I got down like this and kept running. I said, 'Help! Help! Anybody!'"
The man followed Lawrence out of the apartment and fired at least six shots at him. Fortunately, he missed. But police say the man was far from finished. He went back inside the building to break into the apartment of a 34-year-old woman.
"He did the same thing," said Capt. Drew Techner. He pistol whips her, makes demands for drugs and money and looking for another male."
The man got away. Police suspect he crashed into several cars on Loudon Street behind the complex.
Both Lawrence and his neighbor were treated and released from Einstein Medical Center.
Lawrence described the suspect as a tall, skinny Hispanic man, who was wearing red pants and a black shirt. He also had on a hoodie with red sleeves was left at the scene.
