A reward of up to $15,000 is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of two gunmen allegedly involved in a home invasion in Peachtree City.
Homeowner Cece Coffee was beaten and grazed with a shotgun pellet during the Friday night incident, according to police.
Police said two men entered her home through an unlocked door. Coffee told Channel 2 Action News the men believed she had a safe in her home, possibly because she owns a business. She said she decided to fight back when one of the men got rough.
"I was saying, 'You're not going to shoot me,'" she recalled. "'I have no safe. You need to leave now while you can.'"
Coffee said the men grew angrier as she resisted and dragged her into a bedroom.
That's when she said one man started ripping cords out of the wall to tie her up and began searching for a blanket to throw over her head.
Hearing the commotion, her friend Jeff Young entered from the den, distracting the robbers, Coffee said. That's when Coffee said she made a run for it. She got about 15 feet out of her home when she said she heard a gunshot. Coffee was grazed. She said she crawled through the dirt in her backyard. She made it to the house of a neighbor, who called police, she said.
Coffee was treated and released from the hospital and returned home.
The woman told Channel 2 she's not concerned about a return visit. "I think they should be concerned if they come back, because as you can see, I have my gun on my lap," she said.
Coffee said the suspects were in their 20s and wearing all black, with black bandannas covering their faces. She said they left in a dark-colored pickup truck. Police said they had dark complexions, were medium to slender in build and were both about 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall.
The Peachtree City Police Department is responsible for $5,000 of the reward. An additional $10,000 was anonymously donated by a citizen who hopes to encourage those who have information to come forward, police said. Anyone with information on the crime is asked to contact police at 770-631-2510.
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