Victim testifies in Whitpain home invasion trial - Montgomery Newspapers
16, 2013, took a deep breath in court Tuesday before telling jurors that she thought she was going to die when a group of men ambushed her and her husband and entered their home. “My husband was beaten up, and he got severely injured,” the female victim of the attack said. With the help of a Korean interpreter, she said she recalled leaving Joseph’s Sporting Goods, the store in Philadelphia she and her husband have owned and operated for the past 32 years, around 6 p. m. on the night of the home invasion. When they arrived at their house, the woman testified, she went in to the bathroom while her husband stayed outside to bring in the groceries. They were hitting my husband with a hammer,” she said. The woman, 74 at the time of the attack, said she had begun to scream when she was forced inside and knocked to the floor. Then she said she remembered there was a panic alarm button in their bedroom,where the couple had been saving cash, and she directed the men to there. When they reached the bedroom, she directed the men toward the money and was able to hit the panic alarm. 1 2 3 See Full Story The witness was unable to identify either Randall Satcher or Tyree Waters, the two men standing trial for the robbery, but said one of the three men in the house was wearing red sneakers. Source: www.montgomerynews.com
