Manhunt in Fayette County
GEORGES TWP. – State police are continuing to search this afternoon for a man suspected in an attempted home invasion on Georges-Fairchance Road.
While few details have been confirmed, it appears the suspect attempted to break into a home at 1157 Georges-Fairchance Road. At some point during the break in, it appears the suspect was injured and then fled on foot, southbound through a field.
Samantha Teets and her mother Ruth Ann Close, who live at the corner of Hardin Hollow Road and Georges-Fairchance Road., said they arrived home shortly after 1 p.m. and that they saw the suspect walking from the field between their home and 1157 Georges-Fairchance Road.
“He was walking right through our yard and we were looking and he was staring back at us and I saw that he had blood all over his face,” Teets said.
Close said when he got to the corner of her property he asked them how they were doing and then continued to walk alongside their residence.
Once he crossed Hardin Hollow Road, the women said the suspect ripped off a black hooded sweatshirt he was wearing and began sprinting across a neighboring field.
The women then called police.
About a dozen state police troopers responded to the area and conducted searches at locations on Hardin Hollow Road, Mud Pike Road and Seghi Road, while investigators scoured the scene at 1157 Georges-Fairchance Road for clues. Police were aided in their pursuit of the suspect by a state police helicopter.
After several hours of searching, police then moved across the county and conducted additional searches for the suspect in the Brownsville and Hiller areas.
Further details were not available this afternoon.
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