A 52-year-old community activist was brutally beaten with a pipe while she slept last week, reports the Philadelphia Daily News.
According to the paper, Marsha Moore woke up early Friday in excruciating pain, covered in blood, with no recollection of what happened.
"I just touched my face and I felt a gaping gash," Moore told the Daily News.
Authorities say a trespasser kicked down the back door of Moore's home in the Kingsessing section of the city, entered the bedroom and beat the woman with a pipe.
The intruder left the house with a few pieces of stolen jewelry, reports the paper.
Both Moore and her husband Robert, 55, are activist in the West Philadelphia community and a police source believes that’s why their home was targeted, according to the Daily News.
“It was personal,” Robert confirmed to the paper. “They just don’t like us and what we stand for.”
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Marsha Moore is preparing for a surgery that will reconstruct her broken face at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital.
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