Fayette Co. Man Shot In Back By Masked Home Invaders

[HiredGoon]

Fayette Co. Man Shot In Back By Masked Home Invaders

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 – updated: 9:07 am EST December 3, 2008

SOUTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A man is hospitalized after being shot in the back and hit over the head during a home invasion in Uniontown overnight.

Police said Terry Ray Campbell Jr., 31, of Uniontown, was shot by two black men dressed in black wearing “Scream” Halloween masks.

The men knocked on the door at Campbell’s residence on Tuskegee Terrace, and when he answered the door, the masked men forcibly entered his home and demanded money at gunpoint, police said.

When Campbell said he didn’t have any money, the assailants shot him in the back and struck him over the head with a handgun, at which point they fled the scene, according to police.

Authorities said Campbell was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at Uniontown Hospital and then flown to UPMC Pittsburgh for further treatment.

Police are continuing to investigate the incident and ask anyone with information to contact Trooper C.M. Morrison at PSP Uniontown at 724-439-7111.

[adymond]

My wife is FINALLY starting to stop calling me paranoid for double locking all our doors and carrying around the house. I have sent her about three stories of this sort of thing in the last month or so. This is just getting out of hand. What would they do if a baby was in the next room screaming because of the comotion? Things would turn out VERY differently if this had been many of our houses. My wife knows where the .38 is, the AR, and the AK and God help someone if they get past me, the 140 pound dog and she thinks the baby is in danger.

[1861]

my wife would probably shoot me if I went to answer the door unarmed .how do these punks seem to know just which house to pick ?

[adymond]

my wife would probably shoot me if I went to answer the door unarmed .how do these punks seem to know just which house to pick ?

I used to tell my wife that just because I was paranoid didn't mean everyone wasn't out to get me. Now I just don't say anything because she is starting to realize that we are in just as much danger of violent crime at home as we are anywhere else.

[Lady Beretta]

Why the HECK did he answer the door by opening it IF they were already wearing masks???? Who does that?? Not me!

[adymond]

Why the HECK did he answer the door by opening it IF they were already wearing masks???? Who does that?? Not me!

He may not have had a security chain and if he has a holiday wreath hanging on his door his peep hole may have been blocked.