Weakley Co. deputies investigate home invasion robbery

WEAKLEY COUNTY, Tenn. — Deputies are investigating a home invasion robbery in which a man was held at gunpoint in his home.

Deputies responded just before 3 p.m. Friday to a reported armed robbery at a home in the 1200 block of Boydsville Road north of Dresden, according to a release from the Weakley County Sheriff’s Department.

A 52-year-old man told deputies he was inside asleep when awakened by a black man dressed in all white pointing a semiautomatic pistol at his head.

The gunman made the man lie on the bedroom floor while a second intruder also believed to be a black man took a .38 caliber Taurus pistol and a 20-gauge single-shot shotgun, according to the release.

The two men then left in a white, four-door car believed to be a Toyota Avalon possibly driven by a white man.

The victim told deputies he thinks he heard the intruders mention Memphis while inside the home.

Anyone with information about this crime is urged to call the sheriff’s office at 731-364-5454 or Weakley County Crime Stoppers at 731-587-2611.