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Police Suspects are being searched after two answers Philadelphia Families were targeted in different domestic attacks over the weekends.
Police say on Saturday morning, two masked people attacked a 38 -year -old man and his family returning home. According to the police, the suspects chased the family in the house with a weapon and then kidnapped the man shortly after.
Police say the suspects forcibly seated the victim in his own car and went to the victim’s brother’s house and kidnapped the brother.
Philadelphia Police Department Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore told reporters, “Now that they are both in the car, their hands are tied to the zip.” “They are being attacked by firearms, being killed by firearms and money is being demanded.”
The police finally caught the car and the suspects fled.
Vanore said, “A car went to one side, one on the other side,” he said that several hundred dollars were taken from the victims.
Police say that during the incident, an officer tried to intervene by running a gun, but no one was injured.
Vanore said that it appears to be a “targeted” crime. The deputy commissioner first said of the victim, “It is clear that he knew that he was coming home.”
Around midnight Sunday, another house was attacked about four miles from the first targeted house.
Police say that a person armed with black clothes and guns came to his father sitting on his verandah and forcibly entered the house.
According to police, the suspect tied the person, his wife and his daughter with a zip tie and stole $ 1,000 cash. Police say that before escaping, the suspect stabbed the man’s head with a gun.
It is not clear whether the attacks were connected or the family knew each other. But the police said that there is no evidence at the moment that the attacks on both houses are connected.
Philadelphia police toldIndependent There is no arrest at the moment on Tuesday evening.