Livingston Couple's Home Fired Into After Return From Grocery

LIVINGSTON (CBS13) -- A Livingston man and his wife were unloading groceries at their home late Monday night when they say they were confronted by an armed man who later shot into their home.

"My husband saw a guy running by the door and when he saw that he closed the door right away," said the female victim. The couple didn't want CBS13 to use their names.

Livingston Police officers responded to a call of shots fired at about 11 p.m. in the area of the 700 block of Maple Ave. According to the victims, the man shouted "hey you" at the husband as he was carrying the last bag into the house. His wife was already inside. The husband managed to run inside and shut the door. Seconds later the suspect reportedly tried to kick down the door and then fired two rounds at close range into the home.

Bullets went through the front door and into the wall of their son's front bedroom but didn't hit anyone. The couple's teenage children were at the movies.

The family says the bullets are 9mm. One bullet was still lodged in the wall Tuesday afternoon. Police removed the other one.

The family said the husband was kidnapped last year because of a family feud, but they said they don't think the shooting was related. They believe the suspect wanted to rob them and picked the family at random because they happened to be outside.

"It was like they want to get inside the house, but I don't understand this because we are not rich," the woman said."We are middle class. We just work."