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Anderson octogenarian beaten Tuesday during home invasion
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A forensics technician with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office searches for fingerprints after a reported home invasion injured an 81-year-old woman Tuesday on Rexton Drive in Anderson.
Photo by Pearce Adams
Anderson County Sheriff's deputies search for clues Tuesday after a masked man reportedly entered a Rexton Drive home in Anderson and beat an 81-year-old woman.
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ANDERSON — An 81-year-old Anderson woman is recovering from a beating after a masked man confronted her while she was talking on the phone with her son.
James Looney said he talks daily with Betty Looney of 101 Rexton Drive off U.S. 29 North, and at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday was no exception.
“We were talking about junk, and she said, ‘Who’s in there? Take that off your head,’“ said James Looney, standing with his brother-in-law and his son a few yards from crime scene tape that kept them away from the Rexton Drive home.
According to Looney, a masked man entered a side door to his mother’s house and beat her.
Anderson County Sheriff’s deputies, who made no immediate comment, questioned Looney and searched the inside of his mother’s house and the grounds outside the house for clues, including fingerprints on a storm door on the side of the house. A deputy with a dog walked to the Anderson Motel, which shares a common property line with the house. Two deputies were seen entering one of the motel’s rooms.
James Looney said his mother was beaten minutes earlier when the telephone call connection in her home ended. Looney said he called back. The line was busy. After a second try, his mother answered.
“Somebody about beat me to death,” said Looney, recalling his mother’s words. “Please hurry here,” he said, she said.
Betty Looney, who is being treated at An Med Health Medical Center, is suffering from severe injuries to her face, said James Looney, who indicated that two of her daughters are with here.
Earlier, Richard McClellan, Betty Looney’s son-in-law, said the elderly woman has three daughters and two sons who stay in close touch.
James Looney said he does not know what motivated the masked man to enter his mother’s house.
Nothing appears to have been taken, he said.
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This is so awful to happen to anyone !!
Our hearts goes out to all the family.
Jimmy and all please know we have you all in our Prayers. (The HP gang) we love you all.
This is terrible!
I remember when we never locked our doors, even while away. Times have changed through the years and crime is rampant. It's going to take some armed residents to fight back.
I hope who ever did this dies a slow and painful death as soon as possible, hopefully tonight.
Sorry, but I have absolutly no compassion in the slightest for anyone that would do this.
This is incomprehensible... please pray for this woman.
I hope they find the person or people who did this. To be able to do that to a helpless old lady is pure evil. I am keeping her in my prayers and hoping for a speedy recovery.
By the way, am I the only person who had to Google octogenarian???
in response to pink_rfc
only eighty
in response to pink_rfc
Don't know about Google, but I did look it up at Merriam-Webster. Never heard that word before now.
My prayers do go out to the family...
and if whoever did this is not caught here on earth, May God have mercy on his soul...
in response to flashback00
:-) Good one. :-)
Yeah, 8 decades.
Octogon (8 sides & angles), octopus (8 tentacles, octave (8 degrees in music), etc.. October though is the 10th month.
Also "sept" is 7 so septuagenariun is 70 but again September doesn't fit.
These roots, like many of our English words, are from Latin. It's odd to me our calendar is based on the Roman one but the months don't coincide. Maybe someone here has the answer.
Aah, I had to look up the Roman calendar so it makes sense to me now.
* Martius (31 days)
* Aprilis (29 days)
* Maius (31 days)
* Iunius (29 days)
* Quintilis (31 days)
* Sextilis (29 days)
* September (29 days)
* October (31 days)
* November (29 days)
* December (29 days)
* Ianuarius (29 days)
* Februarius (28 days)
When the person is found, they should be strung up by some appropriate appendage and used as a pinata, beaten until their stuffings come out.
yanno it takes a pretty big man to just walk into an elderly womans house just to beat her.. if nothing was taken.. what was the point.. I mean.. i dont see how someone could get their rocks off by beating up old ladies.. I will be keeping this woman in my thoughts and my sympathy goes out to her family. Gladly she'll be ok.
and yeah i'm still tryin gto figure out why they threw that word in here.. i didnt have to look it up cause its pretty self explanitory what it means... but its still kind of out of place for this paper. :) especially for our dear pearce here..
in response to crchandler
I would like to be invited to the pinata party and have first lick.
This has been a awful for this family right here at the Holidays!! Please everyone take caution of any age and beware the demons are all around us. Just keep praying that Jesus protects us from the demons so close to home!!
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