By Greg Fry/Chad Klassen

Neighbours describe violent home invasion in Campbell Creek

Jan 16, 2018 | 8:12 AM

KAMLOOPS — UPDATE — 7:00 AM – Police are back on the scene of that home invasion on Badger Drive in Kamloops yesterday morning. RCMP have been in the area for the better part of an hour.

It’s not known if police are executing the search warrant they were talking about yesterday, or whether there’s something else going on.  Details are expected later this morning.

EARLIER — Kamloops Mounties are investigating a home invasion in Dallas.

Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says police have requested a search warrant for the home on the 87-hundred block of Badger Drive which was broken into just after midnight this morning.

Police were tipped off to the incident by neighbours.

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“We were asleep and there was some loud bangs, about five or six bangs, and it sounded like gun shots but we weren’t quite sure,” says next door neighbour Chris Lamothe. “We went outside the front door and there were people screaming next door, so we went back inside and called police.”

He says the noise continued in his neighour’s back yard.

“I heard more yelling out the back of my house and went on my deck and saw two vehicles, a minivan and a sedan that people were piling into and took off. The person, I guess, who lives or owns the house next door was walking holding his arm, all beat up and limping barefoot in the snow.”

Asked if violence is a regular occurrence next door, Lamothe says the people keep “weird hours, around 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.,” but largely keep to themselves.

Shelkie says a police search of the area came up empty, though police found evidence of other criminal activity within the home. Police aren’t commenting on what they found, but Shelkie notes they are seeking a search warrant.

She says the victims have not been cooperating with police, adding it is not known if the home invasion was targeted. The victims suffered minor injuries and refused ambulance service.