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FORT WORTH -- Police have arrested two adult males and a 16-year-old boy in connection with a morning crime spree that included two business robberies and two home invasions -- one that left an 85-year-old deaf man seriously injured.
Sgt. Pedro Criado, police spokesman, said investigators plan to seek four aggravated robbery charges against the suspects. He identified the adults as Bryant Soriano, 17, and Jose Ignacio Razo, 18. The identity of the 16-year-old boy was not released because he is a juvenile.Criado said the arrests were made after an employee at one of the two convenience stores robbed Tuesday morning spotted the three drive by while police were on the scene still investigating. Criado said officers pulled over the car on a traffic stop.Inside, he said, evidence was found linking the three to all four robberies.According to police reports and calls for service, the crime spree appears to have started about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday at a 72-year-old woman’s home in the 5100 block of South Hampshire Blvd.Three masked men, at least one of which was armed with a gun, reportedly kicked in woman’s door, stealing items before fleeing. The woman was not injured.At about 1:45 a.m., reports show that the suspects targeted the home an 85-year-old man in the 4700 block of Hampshire Blvd.Pam Fojtik, the man’s niece, said the suspects had apparently come through the garage, then kicked in the door leading from the garage into the home. She said her uncle, who is deaf, had apparently encountered the suspects in the kitchen area.“Take whatever you want, just don’t hurt me,” Fojtik said her uncle told the suspects.“That’s when they started to hit him,” Fojtik said. “They beat him until he was down on the floor. He had defensive wounds on his hands where he was trying to keep them from hitting his face. ... He was begging them to stop.”She said the intruders took mainly change from the home and her uncle’s pickup, which police later found wrecked in the 5700 block of Hart Street.Fojtik said her uncle, who suffered bleeding and swelling of the brain in the attack, remains in the intensive care unit.Fojtik said police told her they detained suspects in the case following two convenience store robberies a few hours later. More details about the two business robberies were not immediately available.DEANNA BOYD, 817-390-7655
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