A pair of Clayton County residents were charged on multiple counts in a Nov. 1 Union City home invasion. The arrests were aided by a camera at the residence that recorded the incident.

Zarae Spencer, 20, of Riverdale, and a 15 year-old Jonesboro juvenile were each charged with one count of armed robbery, one count of burglary, three counts of false imprisonment and three counts of aggravated assault in the incident, according to Union City Det. Johanne Welch. Spencer was also charged with hit and run, Welch said.

The incident occurred Nov. 1 at a residence at the Suburban Woods community on Goodson Road. Initially describing the perpetrators as males, the female victims told officers they and a seven year-old child had arrived at their residence at approximately 4 p.m., noting the presence of two people outside a neighbor’s house.

Having aroused their suspicion, the women entered their home and placed a camera with video recording capability on a counter, Welch said. Moments later one of the perpetrators knocked at the door asking for someone that did not live at the residence. Another knock at the door came quickly, but this time Spencer and the 15 year-old male forced their way into the house, said Welch.

Once inside, the perpetrators produced a handgun and demanded money, car keys, a cell phone and other valuables, Welch said. While in the home, Spencer struck one of the women several times in the chest. Spencer and the juvenile fled the residence, failing to take the camera that had been recording the incident, Welch added.

Spencer and the juvenile fled the area in a stolen vehicle. While exiting the community Spencer struck a vehicle, Welch said. The driver of that vehicle was not injured, she said.

Welch said information obtained from the camera’s video and the stolen cell phone led to the arrest of Spencer and the juvenile several days after the incident.

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