(Hamlet, IN) - The Hamlet home invasion that took place on August 3 is now a homicide case. One of the elderly victims has passed away.

 

40-year-old David Campbell of Plymouth is accused of forcing his way into a home on the north side of Hamlet near U.S. 30. Both elderly residents were assaulted.

 

72-year-old Connie Bailey died on August 16, two weeks after the attack. According to her obituary from Frain Mortuary in Winamac, her death was the result of severe head injries and other complications.

 

Bailey was born in LaPorte and grew up on a farm in San Pierre, the obituary noted. She graduated from North Judson-San Pierre High School in 1970 and worked for Del Monte Foods in Plymouth and MPI Products in Knox. She had been recently serving on on the Hamlet town council.

 

Campbell was initially charged with 13 counts of burglary, assault, and battery. A change to possibly include homicide is pending in the Starke County Prosecutor’s Office pending results from an autopsy of the victim.