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Warren cops can’t find victims of beating by gun, wrench
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Police tried Thursday to interview a couple beaten during a robbery Tuesday night in their home on Washington Street Northeast.
But Detective Patrick Marsico said he was unable to locate them. He said he knows only that they were released from two hospitals where they were treated.
Meanwhile, neighbors say the couple’s home at 171 Washington St. NE has been a constant source of complaints related to illegal activity and disturbances.
Police were called to the large home at 10:48 p.m. Tuesday on a report of three black men wearing masks and standing on the front porch. When officers arrived, they found a 70-year-old woman on the porch with a severe cut on her ear and blood covering her face. She nearly lost consciousness before she was taken by ambulance to Valleycare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.
The woman said the three masked men entered the living room where she was sitting, and one of them placed a gun to her forehead. The men struck her repeatedly with handguns while asking, “Where’s the money?”
The men then went to a bedroom where her 80-year-old husband was lying in bed. The man told police the men hit him with a wrench and kept beating him until he screamed for help. The man also went to a hospital, St. Joseph Health Center.
The man had suffered a cut on the top of his head, lumps on his arms and a possible broken hand, police said.
A neighbor said the police are called to the home at 171 and 169 Washington St. regularly and that about a dozen people stay there. The home is divided into apartments.
Police attempted to interview some of the people who were at the home when they arrived, but they were uncooperative “and all stated they did not see anything.”
Archie Cooper, 40, a resident of 171 Washington, made the 911 call. A neighbor described Cooper as owner of the home.
According to Warren police records, they were called by residents of 171 and 160 Washington St. four times during September. The 100 block of Washington Street Northeast was the location for 10 calls to Warren 911 during September.