Police on Friday identified four suspects apprehended Thursday afternoon after a standoff at a home in Orem that lasted nearly four hours.

The police originally apprehended five suspects after the standoff, but after investigation discovered that one had no involvement in the home invasion.

According to Orem police, the suspects entered a home in northeast Orem early Thursday through an unlocked door. There were five people in the home who were assaulted with a baseball bat as they were lying in their beds. Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said the five victims were forced to crawl to the front room of the home and kneel in a circle while one of the suspects held a gun to their heads.

"The other two suspects went through the home gathering up electronic equipment," Edwards said. The suspects left the house after locking the victims in a bathroom and taking their cell phones, threatening to kill the victims if they involved the police. Edwards said the entire ordeal lasted 30-45 minutes before the suspects, described by the victims as black or Polynesian, left the home.

They took with them multiple stolen electronic items, including televisions, a computer, XBox equipment and cameras.

Police were notified of the attacks when two of the victims went to the hospital for treatment. Most of the inhabitants were not seriously harmed, though Edwards said one man's head wound was serious.

"He was going to need a few stitches," he said.

Two breaks in the case allowed police to locate the suspects, Edwards said. First, one of the assailants momentarily had his mask removed and was identified as a black male with braces. Second, police put out an alert to watch for three men of dark complexion in a car.

"Two Utah Valley University officers happened to see a 1990 Cutlass with dark-complected males," Edwards said.

The officers decided to check the car out, but as they approached, the suspects fled. During the pursuit of the suspects, the car briefly eluded police, but the suspects damaged the car and left it behind as they continued to run from police.

The Orem police recovered the car that the suspects were driving, as well as the stolen property, a bloody bat and a handgun.

"With that break, they were able to identify the registered owner of the car," Edwards said.

Police contacted the registered owner of the vehicle, who told officers her daughter had taken the car without permission and may be with 19-year-old Jacob Pele Falo. Falo was also wanted on a $250,000 warrant for a parole violation from an aggravated robbery conviction in Salt Lake City.

Orem police located the suspects at a duplex near 1200 West and 675 North in Orem and officers spent the next four hours trying to convince the suspects to give themselves up. Family members of the suspects, including a mother and brother, volunteered to help with negotiations, and the last suspects eventually surrendered just as police were about to remove them by force.

"Having family members there on the bullhorn was good because they responded to that," Edwards said.

Neighbors in the immediate area of the home were evacuated as a precaution during the standoff in case any shooting were to occur. Jennifer Proctor, a neighbor across the street from the home, said she had not been in her home from 10:30 a.m. until the standoff ended. Proctor said she left her home momentarily and when she returned to get her daughter she was told she could not go in her home. Proctor was suited up in a bullet-proof vest and escorted into her home by four officers with assault rifles in order to get her family out.

"The cops insisted on carrying [her daughter] out and we were all shielded until we got to the corner," she said.

Proctor said she had no idea what was going on at the time. Having her children in the neighborhood at the time was a major concern for Proctor, though her 6-year-old son and stepson were excited the SWAT team had come.

"They think it's pretty exciting," she said. "They love guns."

Mark Loftesness, a next-door neighbor of the suspects, said he did not know the suspects at all because he only recently moved in. Loftesness said he was told to leave his home at noon, and he was sorry to see such an event in his own neighborhood.

"It kind of blows that you have a nice neighborhood, then this happens," he said.

The standoff ended by approximately 2:30 p.m. with five suspects transported to the Orem police station for questioning.

Edwards said the victims claim to not know the suspects, and it is possible the suspects may have entered the wrong home.

"This does not appear to be a random hit on a house," he said.