Three charged in Attalla home invasion

Attalla police have arrested three people in a home-invasion robbery that was not what it appeared to be, according to police.

Police responded to the robbery about 11 p.m. Thursday. They were told that a couple was in the kitchen of a residence on Fourth Street North when a side door to the residence burst open and two masked men came in. Both were armed, one with a shotgun.

The 41-year-old male resident said he was hit with the butt of the shotgun and beaten. He suffered broken facial bones, broken teeth and had to have staples in his head.

The woman said she also was assaulted, punched twice in the stomach. The robbers took $1,000 from the residence.

The woman told them she believed the robbers could have been her ex-husband and his brother, and that she was punched in the stomach because she was pregnant with the baby of the male victim. She told police the two men who burst into the house looked like her ex and his brother.

Attalla investigators consulted Guntersville police and located one of the two suspects she named.

The suspect told police the woman who claimed to be assaulted had set up the robbery, communicating with the two men before they came to the residence and telling them the side door would be unlocked.

All three were arrested Monday, for first-degree robbery and second-degree assault. The woman also is charged with first-degree hindering prosecution.

 36 year old Heather McCarthy Williamson,  and her husband or ex-husband, 27 year old Lorenzo Daniel Williamson, remain in the Etowah County Detention Center. Her bond is $130,000; his is $100,000. 

21 year old Jacob Williamson, has been released on $150,000 bond.