A HOME INVASION IN OAK GROVE YESTERDAY RESULTED IN THE ARREST OF A HOPKINSVILLE MAN AFTER THE WOULD BE VICTIMS FOUGHT BACK.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM OAK GROVE POLICE SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT 137 OAK TREE DRIVE, WHERE THREE BLACK MALES REPORTEDLY KICKED IN THE DOOR AND DEMANDED MONEY FROM THE RESIDENTS.

            THE RESIDENTS STRUGGLED WITH THE PERPETRATORS AND TWO OF THE SUSPECTS FLED THE SCENE IN A SILVER SUZUKI STYLE VEHICLE. THE RESIDENTS WERE ABLE TO DETAIN ONE OF THE SUSPECTS, WHO IS IDENTIFIED AS 32-YEAR OLD JAMES FORTE OF HOPKINSVILLE.

            FORTE HAD TO BE TREATED AT JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR WOUNDS SUSTAINED IN THE STRUGGLE, BEFORE BEING LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL ON FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY CHARGES.

            THE OWNER OF THE HOME, 60-YEAR OLD GEORGE HOPKINS, SUSTAINED LACERATIONS TO THE HEAD AND HAD TO BE TREATED AT JENNIE STUART, AS WELL.

            OAK GROVE POLICE CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR THE OTHER TWO SUSPECTS.

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