The quiet Connecticut town of Cheshire has been stunned by a brutal home invasion that left a home in flames, a wife and her two daughters dead and a bloody and battered father in the hospital. Dr. William A. Petit Jr. survived the day-long attack, but his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their two daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, did not.Authorities said two men broke into the Petit home early Monday morning, held the family hostage for hours, took one of the female hostages to the bank to withdraw money, set the house on fire to cover their tracks, and literally ran into the police as they tried to escape in the family's car.Bank employees became suspicious when Jennifer Hawke-Petit showed up at the Bank of American branch with one of the kidnappers to make a withdrawal and notified police. As the police approached the home, iT was in flames and two men rammed several police cars before being captured at gunpoint.Career Criminals ArrestedArrested were two recent parolees with criminal records, Joshua Komisarjevsky (pictured), 26, and Steven Hayes, 44. Police said both previously lived in the same halfway house after being paroled from prison.Komisarjevsky is charged with one count of first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.Hayes is charged with one count of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.
yeah I saw that on the news yesterday (I live In CT) really is gruesome stuff. times like this you wish they still hanged criminals for doing this so f'ing messed up.
