Man Pistol Whipped During Harlem Home Invasion: Police

HARLEM, NY — Police are searching for two men suspected in a Harlem home invasion where a man was pistol whipped during a physical struggle, police said.

The two men entered an apartment building near Seventh Avenue and West 111 Street on Monday and waited outside one of the building's apartment units, police said. When a 29-year-old woman opened the door to the apartment the two men pushed inside and brandished a firearm in front of the woman, her 9-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter, police told Patch.

The woman's screams woke up a 33-year-old man who was in one of the apartment's other rooms, police said. The man and the suspects then got into a physical struggle, which resulted in the man being pistol whipped, police told Patch.

The two suspected robbers then fled the apartment in an unknown location. The 29-year-old woman and her children were not injured during the struggle, police said.

The two suspects (pictured above) are described as men in their 40s or 50s, both standing around 5-foot-10 and weighing around 220 pounds, police told Patch. One of the men was wearing a gray coat, gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and black shoes and the other was wearing a black coat, black hooded jacket, black hat, black jeans and black shoes, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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