3 charged after attempted home invasion in Norwood Park
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE January 25, 2012 10:08AM
Demarcos Felton, 27, of the 5100 block of West Crystal Street was charged with one count of attempted residential burglary.
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Updated: January 25, 2012 10:34AM
Three men were charged in connection with an aggressive home invasion attempt in the Chicsago’s Norwood Park community Monday evening.
Demarcos Felton, 27, and Scott Edwards, 22 — both of the 5100 block of West Crystal Street — and Jordan Michael Scott, 21, of Berkeley, were charged with one count of attempted residential burglary, Chicago police said.
The incident, which appeared to be random, happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 5800 block of North Oconto, police officer John Mirabelli said.
Two men began pounding on the front door of the home and ringing the doorbell repeatedly. A woman in the home immediately called 911. But at the same time, the two men began to fiercely knock on the door, Mirabelli said.
A male resident looked out the window to see one of the men kick the door while a third robber forced a back door open, Mirabelli said.
The male resident tried to keep the third robber from getting in by pushing the door, but the robber was able to break free and made his way inside the home. Once inside, he threatened the woman. That man was the only one to make it inside the home, police said.
Officers were called to the scene and two of the offenders were found by beat officers near the Harlem Blue Line station. The third jumped the tracks onto the Kennedy Expressway, Mirabelli said. That man was caught by tactical officers near Foster and Harlem.
The three men were identified by the victims.
The couple — a man in his early 60s and a woman in her mid-50s — were not injured.
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