Police: Home Invaders Possibly Impersonated Cops

Police said they found a man with a gun while responding to a home invasion call.

Police said the men involved in an armed home invasion were possibly impersonating police officers during their attack at a Lowell address Saturday night. 

One of those men pointed a handgun at police and was shot by a responding officer, authorities said Sunday. Investigators said they recovered that gun, along with phony badges and handcuffs near the scene of the invasion on Pine Hill Street. 

Police said the second suspect fled the scene but was later apprehended. 

Christopher Covey, 46, of Groveland, Massachusetts, is being held at Lowell Police Station on charges of armed home invasion. Timony Berry, 48, of Harverhill, Massachusetts, is charged with armed home invasion and assault by means of a dangerous weapon and held under armed supervision at a hospital in Boston. 

A statement from Lowell police said the two men had "lengthy criminal records." 

A section of Pine Hill Street in Lowell remained taped off Sunday morning as police continue to investigate an armed home invasion that led to an officer-involved shooting Saturday night. Police said they later obtained a search warrant for that home and discovered "a large amount" of marijuana and cash. 

Two residents in the home suffered non life-threatening injuries during the invasion. They were taken to an area hospital.

The names of the suspect have not yet been released.

"I was just shocked,” one neighbor told necn. "I couldn't even look out my front door it was just police everywhere"

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