Man In Wheelchair Pistol Whipped During Tulsa Home Invasion

A family was robbed at gunpoint this afternoon during a home invasion near Gilcrease Hills. Police said the incident occurred in the 1500 block of West Oklahoma just after 1 p.m.

Police say it was prescription drugs - specifically oxycontin they were after, and they got it by beating up a man in a wheelchair and picking up a woman who is practically bedridden - and throwing her down on the floor.

Chouteau Bighorse said he must not have been moving fast enough for robbers demanding money and pain pills. They hit him on the head with a gun and knocked him out of his wheelchair.

"And I mean, you've heard about people getting hit in the head and seeing stars and birds, I've seen birds and stars," Bighorse said.

Three disabled people live in the mobile home, and they have prescription pain medicine. They believe someone knew they had it - and they were targeted.

The robbers pushed Rebecca Thompson's disabled mother down on the floor.

"It's crazy, I don't understand why," said victim Rebecca Thompson. "Elderly people - it doesn't make sense to me."

The police say the two robbers wore hoodies and gloves, but didn't have their faces covered. The victims were forced to lie face down, at gunpoint, while the robbers searched the house.

"Suspects got the pills and a little bit of cash - a wallet from one of the victims - and they took off on foot," Sergeant Rex Mann, Tulsa Police.

At the intersection of Rosedale and Newton - two blocks from the house - police found a hoodie they believe was dropped by one of the suspects. A K-9 officer lost the trail nearby, where police believe the suspects had a car waiting.

"I hear about it on TV all the time about pharmacies getting robbed, and you know, you take them if you need them, they're not for recreation," said Chouteau Bighorse, crime victim.

The suspect description is vague, so detectives are running down connections to anyone who might have known the victims had oxycontin in the house.

If you know anything that can help police, call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.