Reading, Pennsylvania

From Allentown’s TheGALChannel of August 26, 2005

2 Killed In Morning Home Invasion

Two people are dead and two others are hospitalized after an apparent home invasion in Reading.

Police said someone at a home on the 200 block of North Ninth Street called police around 3:30 a.m. to say that someone had broken into the home.

When police arrived at the scene, they found residents Azusena Hernandez-Aviles, 26, and Vicente Aviles-Negron, 34, with gun shot wounds and two men dead.

Police said it appears two men broke into the back of the house, duct taped one resident and forced him to open the front of the house.

"At this point, one of the people inside the house either wrestled with one of the persons, took a gun from them or had a gun of their own," Capt. Francis Drexler said.

Police said a child living in the home apparently slept through the whole thing.

"They're really nice people, really respectable," neighbor Ruth Montanez said.

The brother and sister were hospitalized with their injuries. Aviles-Negron is reported in satisfactory condition and Hernandez-Aviles is in critical condition.