Update"Assualt style weapon" used in lancaster robbery.

**The Unknown 1087** · August 11th, 2009, 11:03 AM

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/240871

Home invasion, 2 shootings in Lancaster
Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Aug 11, 2009 10:15 EST
Lancaster City

By RYAN ROBINSON, Staff Write
Two people with sheets over their faces and carrying at least one gun — an assault-style weapon — invaded a city home while residents were inside early today, police said.

City police responded to a 4:58 a.m. call of a robbery in the 400 block of South Shippen Street.

"A subject or subjects with a weapon entered and stole items from a residence," city police Lt. Todd Umstead said. "There was at least one gun. No shots were fired.

"It does appear there was more than one person who entered," he said. "There was at least one weapon."

Umstead did not confirm or deny an earlier police report that a gun involved was an "assault-style weapon."

No one was hurt in the incident, he said.

Less than an hour after the home invasion call, at 5:46 a.m., city police were dispatched to the 300 block of East Orange Street — about six blocks from the home invasion — for a shooting, Umstead said.

Police found a male victim inside a residence in very critical condition and he was transported to an area hospital, he said.

At 6:30 a.m., police received a report of "shots fired" a block away, in the area of East Orange and North Plum streets, Umstead said.

Police found a male victim laying along the street with a gunshot wound to his back, police said.

He was taken to an area hospital and was also in very critical condition, Umstead said.

"We called in every available detective and they are interviewing and trying to track down witnesses," he said of efforts to solve the crimes.

Police don't know if any of the incidents are related, he said.

No other information was available this morning.

E-mail: rrobinson@lnpnews.com

**ChamberedRound** · August 11th, 2009, 11:08 AM

That "lost and stolen" ordinance Lancaster passed sure is helping...

**The Unknown 1087** · August 11th, 2009, 11:27 AM

Sorry about not putting it in quotes!

I am glad I am not in the city. I hate driving through it too.

**riverpirate** · August 11th, 2009, 11:45 AM

ugh , was in the city yesterday. i hate going in to town. i worked downtown there for years and never had any problems, it just seems this past year the place is going to shit.

**shefearsnothing** · August 11th, 2009, 12:51 PM

Good thing they got all that money to put those cameras all over the city. It seems the watchful eye has really been helpful. Criminals are being deterred...

**YllwFvr** · August 11th, 2009, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by shefearsnothing

Good thing they got all that money to put those cameras all over the city. It seems the watchful eye has really been helpful. Criminals are being deterred...

"That "lost and stolen" ordinance Lancaster passed sure is helping...
"

OMG the feel good bullshit never ends.

**The Unknown 1087** · August 11th, 2009, 01:40 PM

2 dead after shootings in city
Armed home invasion also under investigation.

By RYAN ROBINSON, Staff Writer
Two people shot early this morning have died, city police announced in an e-mail.

No further information on the homicide victims was immediately available, police said. A press conference was scheduled at police headquarters for 3:30 p.m. today.

The deaths are the latest development in a scary day in the city.

Two people with sheets over their faces and carrying at least one gun — an assault-style weapon — invaded a city home while residents were inside early today, police said.

City police responded to a 4:58 a.m. call of a robbery in the 400 block of South Shippen Street.

"A subject or subjects with a weapon entered and stole items from a residence," city police Lt. Todd Umstead said. "There was at least one gun. No shots were fired.

"It does appear there was more than one person who entered," he said. "There was at least one weapon."

Umstead did not confirm or deny an earlier police report that a gun involved was an "assault-style weapon."-

No one was hurt in the incident, he said.

Less than an hour after the home invasion call, at 5:46 a.m., city police were dispatched to the 300 block of East Orange Street — about six blocks from the home invasion — for a shooting, Umstead said.

Police found a male victim inside a residence in very critical condition and he was transported to an area hospital, he said.

At 6:30 a.m., police received a report of "shots fired" a block away, in the area of East Orange and North Plum streets, Umstead said.

Police found a male victim laying along the street with a gunshot wound to his back, police said.

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