MOULTRIE, Ga. — No one was injured during a Tuesday morning home invasion from which police received reports of shots fired, possibly by the fleeing robber.

A lone gunman reportedly entered the residence of Rufino Gutierrez-Acosta in the 200 block of Dogwood Drive early Tuesday, according to the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.

“A deputy was dispatched at around 1 in the morning,” Sgt. Ronald Jordan said.

There, the victim’s son, Jorge Gutierrez-Acosta translated for his father, telling police that a lone intruder with a gun held up the older man.

“He said (that) about 1 o’clock a person wearing a black mask, gloves, black pants, black shoes and a red hoodie entered the home through an unlocked front door,” Jordan said. “He put a gun to the father’s head and demanded money.”

Rufino Gutierrez-Acosta gave the intruder $325, Jordan said.

“The two sons heard the commotion and ran in the living room,” he said. “Once the offender saw them he ran out the door.”

The family reported hearing several gunshots after the robber fled, but it was unknown whether he was shooting at a target or just firing in the air to discourage anyone from pursuing him.

Officers found no shell casings in the area, but if the gunman had a revolver that would explain the lack of that evidence being found at the scene, Jordan said. Another witness saw two men running, but it was not known whether it was the gunman and an accomplice or one of the pursuing brothers that the witness saw.

None of the witnesses was able to discern the ethnicity of the intruder, police said.

Through much of the year a gang of robbers have been terrorizing Hispanics in the county in hold-ups in which several men were shot, one seriously. In those incidents the robbers, in groups of anywhere from two to about six, have confronted Hispanic people — nearly all farm laborers — either in their yards or after  entering their homes in the evening or nighttime hours.

Due to differences in details, police do not think the Tuesday morning robbery is connected to the others. Victims and witnesses in those other hold-ups have described their assailants as black males wearing dark clothing and with covered faces.