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Gene Kennedy Reporting Three suspects looking for drug money violently raided two homes, then led police on a high speed chase through the Salt Lake Valley.
Jason Stoke / Victims's Brother: "A couple people just came through our back door, came into my brother's room, started beating him up. My mom went downstairs to figure out what the commotion was, and they started beating her up too."
Police believe the attacks were motivated by drugs. The suspects broke into two homes. Several people are in the hospital as a result of the attacks.
The intruders awakened them and starting beating three people with bats and clubs.
That violent attack happened at this West Valley City home. Jason Stokes was sleeping inside and heard it all.
Jason Stokes / Victim's Brother: "Really just a lot of commotion. Stuff slamming around, people screaming. When I came out, my mom and my brother were just standing there covered in blood. My brother's friend was all bloody."
All three victims were sent to the hospital -- two received stitches and staples for lacerations, another treated for broken facial bones.
The two victims who had to get stitches were not very happy to see Eyewitness News after getting out of the hospital.
(Reporter: "You doing ok?") Victim: "I'm fine, you all need to go. Go."
But one victim's mother told us her daughter was merely spending the night at the house.
Bonnie Hinson / Victim's Mother "They were shocked. They were shocked that it happened. Because you know they were sleeping when it happened. My daughter says they started screaming when she hear the door being beaten down."
Before the suspects broke into the West Valley home, they hit another house just 10 minutes earlier in unincorporated Salt Lake County. Police believe the residents here also owed drug money.
The suspects broke windows at the home and on cars parked outside but no one was hurt.
The turning point in all this, came when police started pulling cars over in West Valley after the attack and happened to pull over the suspect's vehicle. No one would get out of the car. Instead the three men led police on a chase that ended in Murray.
Everyone in the car arrested. When police searched the vehicle they say they found stolen items and bats and clubs with blood on them.
