Home invaders may have hit wrong victims

Salt Lake police Thursday were trying to determine if an early-morning home invasion robbery was the result of mistaken identity.

Just before 4 a.m., two men broke into a house near 1600 South and 1000 West through a basement window. Two adults and four juveniles were inside at the time, according to a police watch log.

The men pointed a gun at one of the juveniles sleeping downstairs and forced him to go upstairs to the adult's room.

The intruders kicked in the upstairs bedroom door and pointed a sawed-off shotgun and handgun at the victims, the report stated. The men then grabbed a pillow case, placed it over the head of the adult male victim and began choking him, according to the report.

The invaders demanded guns, money and drugs. When they were told none of those items were in the house, they hit the adult male victim in the head again, took about $200 cash and left, the report stated.

None of the people inside the house was seriously injured.

Investigators said the family has only lived in the house for a short time. They were looking at whether the intruders may have believed someone else still lived there.