A 44-year-old Chicago Heights woman escaped to safety after fighting off an attacker who sprayed her with Mace and shot her with a stun gun in her home, police said.
Ken E. Chapman, 39, 4540 Farmington Road, Richton Park, was charged with home invasion, aggravated battery, unlawful restraint and residential burglary for his role in the attack last Saturday, police said. He’s being held without bail at Cook County Jail.
Police said Chapman knew the woman for about 10 years through a bowling league, and she had him over to fix two computers at her house in the 200 block of Sherry Lane.
About 11:30 a.m., she sat down at the computer in her son’s room and asked Chapman a question about the computer’s display, when he began choking her and sprayed her with Mace, acco rding to police.
Authoritites said that when she fought back, Chapman shocked her in the stomach and thigh with a stun gun.
Police said the woman overpowered Chapman, grabbed the stun gun out of his hands and tried to shock him with it but failed. She then ran from the house and called police from a neighbor’s home, police said.
They said Chapman fled from the house but was caught a short time later in the 400 block of Joe Orr Road. When he was arrested, he was carrying a laptop com puter, a roll of duct tape, sexual aids, a digital camera, a tripod and a hammer, according to police.
They said it’s the second time Chapman has been accused of a similar crime in less than two years, having been charged with home invasion in Chicago in March 2009.
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