PLANTERSVILLE — Investigators with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department continue to search for two men in their 20s, who are suspects in a burglary Monday evening that left a 74-year-old injured with stab wounds and bruises.

Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said William James Goodman, 20, a white male, 6-0, 200 pounds and Jonathan Samuel Wayne Pitts, 24, a white male, 6-1, 220 pounds are wanted on charges of first-degree burglary, attempted murder, kidnapping and first-degree theft of property.

The two men are believed to be traveling in the company of a 17-year-old white female in a 1992 Chevrolet C-1500, blue pick-up truck bearing the Alabama license plate 27A82A4.

“We don’t know where they are,” Huffman said. “But they are armed with a handgun and a knife, so they should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.”

The sheriff said the two suspects are believed to have knocked on the door of the victim, who authorities have declined to identify, at a residence in the 10000 block of Dallas County Road 63 in Plantersville and asked the man to take them to get some gasoline.

When the man refused, the suspects kicked open the door and hit the victim with something, forcing the elderly man to his knees. “The 74-year-old is a pretty good-sized fellow,” Huffman said.

The attackers ripped apart some extension cords, tied up the victim and put him in his truck, the blue 1992 Chevrolet.

Investigators believe the two drove from Plantersville to Jones, Burnsville, down River Road to Arrowhead Road, where there is a large lake.

Huffman said one of the men was armed with a knife and another with a handgun. The one with the knife attempted to cut the victim’s throat.

“But the man moved and he cut him on one of his shoulders,” the sheriff said.

The suspect stabbed the victim multiple times in the chest and back, until the elderly man rolled himself down a bank into the lake, Huffman said.

One of the other attackers followed the victim into the lake and held the man’s head under water for a bit.

“He made his body go limp. He kind of faked dying,” the sheriff said. “The two suspects got in the truck and drove off.”

The victim pulled himself to the side of the road, where a lady passing by saw him and called authorities.

Apparently, the two suspects went to one of their homes and picked up the teenage girl, who was staying with one of the suspects and his father.

The victim was taken to Vaughan Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and kept for observation.

Huffman said he has three investigators working on the case and has issued the burglary and theft of property warrants over the National Crime Information Center, so if the suspects have left the state, and if they are checked the warrants will show up.

Anyone with information should call the Sheriff’s Department at 874-2530 or the dispatcher at 874-2578.