About three hours later, Marsha called him frantically about the pain in her face, and she screamed into the phone after she saw blood splattered throughout their bedroom.
She is in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania awaiting facial-reconstruction surgery. The assailant cracked her face in four places, knocked her eye three centimeters back, broke two fingers on her left hand and fractured her arm. She said she has more than 100 stitches throughout her face and head.
"I'm trying to understand why they would come in on somebody like that," Marsha said. "I'm not mad. I just want to know why."
In their front window a poster reads, "I proudly support the Philadelphia Police," and another alerts neighbors that a police chaplain resides at the home on Cecil Street near Kingsessing Avenue.
A police source said the home was targeted because the Moores help police, and Robert and Marsha said they believed the attack was personal.
"They didn't have to hurt her because she would have given them anything they wanted," Robert said. "It was personal. They just don't like us and what we stand for."
Robert added that the thugs didn't take cash dangling above their bed, a camcorder, DVD players, computers and expensive jewels. The source said that police have a lead on a possible suspect who lives nearby and that there were at least two people involved.
"You can never tell why people do what they do," said neighbor Willamae Johnson, 67. "She's always in the neighborhood helping young people. I don't see why somebody would do that."
