Coatesville, PA: Woman shot armed intruder 10/20/2004

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10/20/2004
Police: Woman shot armed intruder
GINA ZOTTI , Staff Writer

COATESVILLE — A woman sitting on her couch watching television shot
and critically injured an armed intruder who kicked through her door
late Monday night, police said.
Nakie Thomas, 29, shot Elliot Thompson, 30, as he and another man
broke into her home in the 500 block of Walnut Street around 11:30
p.m., police said.

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The shooting was unrelated to a homicide in the 400 block of Victoria
Drive less than a half-hour beforehand, according to Coatesville
Police Chief Dominick Bellizzie.

Thomas shot at Thompson four or five times, hitting a window once, the
television once and him twice in the chest, police said.

“She was in her home either seated on or near the couch,” said
Bellizzie. “As they kicked the door in, she proceeds to unload on them
with her weapon.”

Thompson was listed in critical condition at Crozer-Chester Medical
Center Tuesday evening, a hospital spokesperson said.

Thomas was also shot once in the foot, but police said they were
unsure if the bullet was shot by Thomas or one of the intruders.

Bellizzie said that the intruders most likely targeted Thomas’ home
looking for drugs and money.

“That location has had known drug activity in the immediate vicinity,”
he said.

Three men arrived at the home in a four-door, dark-colored sedan.
Police said that at least two of them barged into the home. After the
shooting, the men got back into the car they arrived in and fled. They
were found by West Brandywine police circling around Brandywine
Hospital.

One man was able to flee on foot after bailing out of the car. Another
man, Warren Barclay, 29, of the 3900 block of D Street in
Philadelphia, was taken into custody. Thompson, of the 1600 block of
North Butler Street, was also in the car “pretty gravely wounded,”
police said, and was flown to Crozer-Chester Medical Center.

Police have not identified the suspect who remains at large.

Later that morning, a hospital security guard found two guns near the
entrance to the hospital, police said. Bellizzie said that the guns
were believed to have been the intruders’ and Thomas’, which the
intruders at some point took.

Police continue to investigate.

?Daily Local News 2004