Robert Allen

Detroit Free Press

Home invaders claiming to be police officers Tuesday morning on Detroit's west side made the occupants lie on the floor before shooting a 35-year-old man, according to Detroit Police Department.

The three suspects at about 4:30 a.m. announced themselves as police and kicked in the side door of the home on the 6300 block of Mettetal Street. They ordered the man and a 29-year-old woman to the floor, shot the man twice and took "a large amount of money," Detroit police officer Jennifer Moreno said.

The man is in stable condition at a hospital. The suspects never showed any identification, badges, shirts, uniforms or vests indicating they were police, and they fled the home on foot, Moreno said.

Police describe the suspects as three black men, about 6 feet tall, all wearing black with masks covering their noses and mouths. One was armed with a gun, police said.

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