Champaign men charged with home invasion in shooting incident
URBANA — A Champaign man accused of forcing his way into a Champaign home at gunpoint in September is due back in court in November after being formally charged with home invasion.
Mario Dorsey, 35, was in Champaign County Circuit Court Monday after having recently been released from the hospital for injuries he sustained during the Sept. 26 incident at a home in the 1100 block of West Eureka Street.
Co-defendant Charles Brown, 36, who listed an address in the 1300 block of North Champaign Street, Champaign, was arrested Oct. 6 after his release from the hospital and also charged with two counts of home invasion. Both Brown and Dorsey remain in the county jail.
State's Attorney Julia Rietz said both men were shot by the boyfriend of the woman whose home was forcibly entered that night.
She and her children were home about 7:30 p.m. when two men wearing hooded sweatshirts and ski masks and carrying handguns came to the back door asking where her boyfriend was. One of the men pointed a gun at her as she held her infant daughter, while the other man pulled her 15-year-old son into a bedroom and searched him.
The woman's boyfriend arrived home and heard the woman yelling and saw the two men inside with guns. He then went to the garage and obtained a 9 mm pistol, went in the house, and shot both of the masked intruders.
The injured men ran from the home by breaking out a bedroom window. Police found a ski mask in the bushes outside the home.
Champaign police developed Brown and Dorsey as suspects after learning that the two had been brought separately to Provena Covenant Medical Center for treatment of gunshot wounds. Rietz said police found glass shards on Dorsey's clothes.
Brown said he had been at the Eureka residence with Dorsey but said the resident shot them without provocation, according to Rietz.
Rietz said Dorsey is on parole for a 2003 conviction for delivery of a controlled substance. He's being held on $150,000 bond and is to be back in court Nov. 18.
Brown is being held in lieu of $300,000 bond and is due back in court Nov. 8.
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