Girl: He Was Going To Kill Us If We Moved

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man was recovering after being shot twice in an alleged home invasion late Monday night.

It happened on Calahan Road shortly before midnight.

It was a night 17-year-old Ashley Coleman won't soon forget -- for all the wrong reasons.

“It was just all too fast," she said.

Ashley said she was watching television in her South Side home just before midnight when the side door opened.

“People walked in like they live here,” she said.

There were two men, and one of them was wearing a mask and had a gun, she said. Two others stood watch outside.

“He picked me up, yanked me and threw me back," she said.

The men demanded to know where Ashley's parents were, she said.

“He had the gun right up to me and my friend’s head and said he was going to kill us if we moved, if we didn't tell him anything."

After kicking in Ashley's brothers’ and sisters’ bedroom doors, a suspect made it downstairs to her parents’ bedroom in the basement.

It was there the gunman confronted Ashley's father, Dan, and demanded money, she said.

Ashley's mom was hiding.

“My dad told him she wasn't here, there's nothing here for you. So, that's when you heard the gunshot.”

A first gunshot was followed by a second.

Dan, 38, was shot in the neck and leg.

It was at that point, Ashley said, the suspects heard police sirens.

Several people, including Ashley, discreetly called 911.

“The guy downstairs was screaming ‘The cops are coming. You better give it to me now before I kill you. Hurry up. I hear some cops. You better hurry up before I kill you.’

"Then the gun didn't go off again. It jammed. So, he hit my dad in the face," she said.

Ashley said the suspects fled the scene.

CPD arrested one of the suspects outside. Police said he was running with a safe.

Officers found Dan, a father of six, inside. He was bleeding profusely from his leg.

Officers made a makeshift tourniquet with towels to slow the bleeding.

CPD Sgt. Doug Jones said what the officers did likely saved Dan's life.

"Two officers made entry inside the house, went downstairs and made a discovery that there was a victim lying on the ground bleeding profusely out of his leg. They applied direct pressure to his leg, actually applied a tourniquet and saved his life," Jones said.

“It was amazing. Just in time, though, because he only had a few more minutes to live,” Ashley said.

Dan was transported to Grant Medical Center in critical condition.

He remains at Grant in nonlife-threatening condition thanks to the quick actions of some of Columbus' finest.

Ashley said the entire incident lasted 10 minutes.

Anyone with information was encouraged to call CPD at 614-645-4545.

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