Couple robbed near Center Grove HS

GREENWOOD, Ind. (Daily Journal) - Two men broke into a Center Grove home and robbed a man and woman at gunpoint as they were getting ready for bed Sunday night, police said.

The men wore bandanas covering their faces from their noses to their chins, demanded money and left the Golden Grove Estates home with the couple's credit cards, according to the police report.

A 56-year-old resident was taken to a hospital with facial injuries and a possible concussion after one of the men hit him. A female resident in the home was not injured, Johnson County Sheriff's Maj. Steve Byerly said.

The sheriff's office is asking for people to contact them if they saw anything suspicious around midnight Sunday near Stones Crossing Road and Saddle Club Road.

The couple was in their upstairs bedroom getting ready for bed Sunday night when two men burst into the bedroom. Both had handguns and ordered the couple to get down, the police report said.

One man punched the 56-year-old man in his right eye, possibly breaking one of the bones in his face, Byerly said.

Another man took a female resident in the home downstairs and she gave him a credit card.

The man took her back upstairs and ordered the couple to lie on the bed until they left or they would shoot them, the report said.

When the female resident returned downstairs to call police, she found that the men had gone through desk drawers and taken more of the couple's credit cards, the report said.

Investigators are now looking for any witnesses and any possible connection between the couple and the two men, Byerly said.

The men knew the area and how to get to the home and they never asked if anyone else was in the home, leading investigators to believe they knew the couple lived in the home alone, Byerly said.

They believe the two men parked on a driveway off Stones Crossing Road, east of Center Grove High School, and then walked through a wooded area to the home.

A police officer using a police dog tracked their scent to that area, Byerly said.

Investigators are now planning to get surveillance video from area homes, businesses and the high school, he said.

They also collected potential evidence from the home, including fingerprints, shoe prints and DNA, which will be analyzed, Byerly said.

And they are asking that anyone with information call the sheriff's office at 346-4604.

Investigators have been following information since Sunday night and have talked to neighbors, but also want to see if anyone has other information, such as if they saw a vehicle drive out of an access road on Stones Crossing Road, Byerly said.