Police Search For 2 Suspects After Fitchburg Home Invasion, Shooting
FITCHBURG (CBS) -- Police are searching for two suspects and a black pickup truck after a man in Fitchburg was shot during a home invasion. The 911 call from Chester Street came in around 11:48 a.m. Tuesday.
The man was rushed to a nearby hospital and, at last check, was in stable condition, Fitchburg Police Chief Ernest Martineau said.
Dustin DePaul said that man is his roommate. He was lying in bed when he heard two people banging on his door -- he didn't know they had a gun. "Just get on the ground, like three, four times," he recalled them saying.
"I chased one guy out of the building and then I grabbed a shovel to turn around to come upstairs and I came around the corner and the dude had the gun right in my face and I just dropped the shovel and put my hands up and he ran out. So then I just ran upstairs and my roommate said 'yeah, I've been shot,'" DePaul said.
Martineau told reporters, "We put out a BOLO for all area agencies statewide. We're looking for a black possibly Chevy pickup truck. It was reported as possible Pennsylvania plates on it, that has not been confirmed as of yet."
Police do not believe the home invasion was random.
Reingold Elementary School was put on lockdown and Memorial Middle School was put on an informal lockdown as police responded to the scene. Those have since been lifted.
A K9 unit assisted in the search around the neighborhood as well.