Atlanta Police are developing leads in the case of a Sunday evening home invasion that left a young father with bullet holes in both legs.

The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. on August 16.  Victims say they were approached at their home on Sumter St. in northwest Atlanta by a pair of teenagers who claimed their car had broken down.  Eyewitnesses spotted two other young males standing nearby on the street.

The victims told police that the young men tried to push their way inside the house, and shot Michael Lash once in each leg as he tried to shut the door on them.  Lash's mother-in-law told a reporter that her daughter, Whitney, ran out of the back of the home with the couple's infant daughter when she heard gunfire, and was shot at as she ran.  Whitney Lash spoke to a 911 dispatcher in a quiet voice, describing the incident.

"I just ran outside with my baby," she said.  "There's a black young man at the front door.  He just pulled a gun on my husband."

As the call continues, about 20 seconds later, Mrs. Lash gasps as she hears a gunshot ring out.  After a few more seconds, it sounds as if you hear her voice in the distance saying, "I have a baby!  I have a baby!"

Police officers found three .40-caliber shell casings and two slugs inside the house.

Thursday afternoon, police officers spent two days canvassing the neighborhood, talking to residents to see if they had seen anything that could help lead to the criminals.

"It stimulates people's memories, and something they thought might have been insignificant helps us out," says APD Lt. Jeff Hensal.

Security video from a business across the street from the house was used to identify a black SUV seen in the neighborhood at the time of the crime, which the canvass discovered led to a neighbor who had seen the suspects right after the crime.

Hensal says that discovery moves the case forward "quite a bit, because I think that witness is going to be helping us out tremendously.  So let's keep our fingers crossed, and keep the Crime Stoppers tips coming in, and I hope before long we get this guy off the street.  He needs to go."

Police say two to four suspects snatched electronics from the couple, but turned off the iPhones about a quarter-mile away.  Atlanta Police are also wondering why the suspects targeted that particular house.

Hensal, the Zone 2 CID commander, says tips are coming in since Wednesday afternoon's release of a suspect sketch, which shows a young black male with a short Afro and a distinctive dermal anchor piercing in the center of his forehead.

A neighbor who has lived for some 40 years in a home one street over from the Lashes' relatively new home on Sumter says that for two weeks before the home invasion, he noticed a group of four young black males who would walk one way down one street, never returning the opposite way.  A neighbor on another street had noticed them too, he says.  Rance Jiles says they have a diverse and active neighborhood, with people often strolling, exercising, or walking their dogs, yet he did not recognize any of the four.  He pointed them out to his wife, he said.

He hasn't seen any of them since the home invasion.

"They was doing it for two weeks, about every other day, and then, all of a sudden just stop?  That, you know, makes you wonder," said Jiles.