CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- Carbondale Police are investigating an early morning home invasion.
Officers were called to the 900 block of West Sycamore Street just after 5 a.m. Tuesday for a report of a gunshot victim.
Investigators learned two masked men with guns entered a home and demanded money. The men shot one victim and hit another with a gun before taking off on foot.
Police say the gunshot victim was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
The suspects were described as:
- a white male 5�7�-6�0� tall, wearing a ball cap, frameless glasses, a dark color sweatshirt with a hood and black shoes with red or pink laces.
- a black male 6�0�-6�3� tall wearing a white and red bandana, a dark color sweatshirt with a hood, glasses with amber color lenses, a white ball cap and dark color shoes.
Southern Illinois University Department of Public Safety and the Jackson County Ambulance Service assisted during the incident.
Anyone with information about the home invasion is asked to call the Carbondale Police Department at (618) 457-3200. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677).
