Four men were jailed on $100,000 bonds after they allegedly broke into a Roanoke Rapids area house and assaulted two victims with a hammer in the early morning hours Wednesday.

The victims sustained injuries and one was transported to Halifax Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released, according to Lieutenant Doug Pilgreen of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.

The crime occurred on Hollyhock Lane and the victims alleged the four people entered the house because of an earlier domestic situation involving one of the suspect’s family members.

Pilgreen said the earlier situation resulted when Randell Garner, the victim who was taken to the hospital by ambulance, assaulted a female family member of the alleged suspects. Garner was charged with assault on a female. 

The home invasion occurred an hour or so following the domestic assault and the four fled and a be on the lookout notice was given over police radio frequencies.

Roanoke Rapids police and Halifax Regional security officers took the men into custody after they went to hospital to check on the female family member, Pilgreen said.

Clockwise beginning at top left, Michael Pilgrim, Joshua Pilgrim,

Bynum and Jonathan Pilgrim.

The men were identified as Michael Pilgrim, 32, of Garysburg, Joshua Pilgrim 28, of Roanoke Rapids, Jonathan Pilgrim 25, of Roanoke Rapids and James Bynum III, 46, of Garysburg.

They were all arrested and charged with breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, conspiracy to commit breaking and entering and two counts of felony conspiracy.

They have August 1 court dates.