Home invasion sends pair to hospital

Local News

December 11, 2009

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Two Edgecombe County residents were taken to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville for treatment early Thursday following an armed robbery near their residence.

Edgecombe County Sheriff James Knight said his office received a call from the hospital's police at 1:48 a.m. Thursday about the two victims. The two men escaped the armed robbery, which occurred at their Pitt County residence on Carraway Road.

Knight said after that break-in, the two victims then went to their Edgecombe County residence, off U.S. 258 south of Macclesfield. Knight said the two then had a neighbor take them to the Greenville hospital.

Knight said one of the victims had a non-life-threatening stab wound to their back following the robbery, and the other was not injured. The victims told authorities that two black men wearing all black clothes and masks forced their way into the Carraway Road residence around 1 a.m. Both of the assailants were armed with handguns, Knight said.

Both of the victims were bound, as the assailants made off with various electronic equipment, and an undisclosed amount of cash, leaving the scene in a truck owned by one of the victims, Knight said.

It was a 2007, gray GMC truck with license tag number YXF-3907.

Knight said the investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to contact his office at 641-7911.