Four thugs who busted into an Atlanta-area home demanding money shot their guns in panic, seriously wounding an 8-year-old girl who was attending a birthday party. A bullet grazed the chest of Andrea Martinez Reneaud, then traveled through her arm without hitting bone, according to Chamblee (Ga.) Police Chief Marc Johnson. The girl was at a party that was held for her 7-year-old friend. Six adults and their children were at the home after midnight when four men busted through the unlocked front door and demanded money with guns raised. They said that the men likely picked the house because it’s the only one that had the lights still on. “The suspects identified themselves as police officers but had no identifying patches or badges,” Johnson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They demanded money and were threatening the people inside.” None of the partygoers was armed, according to police. One of the suspects fired shots in the air as he chased one of the men from the party to a back room. Somebody in the suspect’s group thought they were being shot at somebody in the house, and he began shooting his gun. The bullet exchange scared the suspects who fled the house with nothing. “There is no such thing as a good home invasion but this one was worse than normal,” Johnson said. “Everything blew up on them and they fled the house before they could get anything from anyone…. This is the first case we’ve had like this. We all want to think we’re safe in our own homes.”

Reports are true about men invading the home of teen rapper Soulja Boy and robbing him and several of his close friends on News Year’s Eve, a representative for the entertainer said this weekend. On New Year’s Day, a video surfaced on the Internet showing two masked men who claimed responsibility for the crime, AllHipHop.com reports. The shows the two men bragging about how they had stalked Soulja Boy and followed him home after his album-release party. The purported assailants described the robbery in detail, but rejected earlier reports that there had been six gunmen armed with AK-47s. They said they had done it between the two of them, using only one gun. The video was so dramatic and overproduced that it was widely perceived as a hoax. But AllHipHop.com says the rapper’s rep said that an incident definitely took place, declining to go into detail. The crime was a “serious situation,” he told the Web site.