By Hudson Sangree
hsangree@sacbee.com
Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspects who shot a man in the face during what appeared to be a home-invasion robbery in the Arden-Arcade area.
Deputies were called to the apartment of an elderly woman in the 800 block of Carro Drive just after 6 p.m. Sunday.
The 70-year-old woman had answered the door for a younger woman asking to use the bathroom, when two men rushed in, pepper sprayed the victim and began going through her apartment, said Sacramento Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos.
The woman was the manager of seven or eight apartments in the area, and was known to accept rent payments in cash, Ramos said.
A man in his early 50s - the maintenance man for the apartments - heard the disturbance and went to check. The suspects dragged the male victim into the apartment, pistol whipped him and shot him twice, in the face and hand, Ramos said.
The man, who is hospitalized with tubes in his throat, has been unable to speak and provide a suspect description. The female victim could not provide useful information about the assailants, Ramos said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's department at 916-874-5115.
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