Web Extra! Updated 6:02 p.m.
Police have arrested a man they suspect broke into a Riverside home this afternoon, after officers fanned out from the 200 block of Addison Road, where the incident happened.
As of 5:15 p.m., officers from Riverside, Berwyn and Lyons, along with a K-9 unit from Berwyn were searching in the vicinity of Harlem Avenue and Longcommon Road for a suspect described as a white male about 60 years old, wearing a plaid shirt. At about 3:10 p.m., a woman residing in the 200 block of Addison Road told police she confronted the man inside her home.
The two engaged in a brief physical struggle during which the woman cut her leg. She was taken to Loyola University Medical Center for treatment of the injury. Before that, however, the woman chased the man through the neighborhood while police from Riverside, North Riverside, Lyons, Brookfield and Berwyn were dispatched to the area.
Police set up a perimeter in the area, and just before Chief Thomas Weitzel said officers were about to call off the search, the man was located in a backyard. No other details were immediately available.
Several people reported seeing the man running through yards in the neighborhood, including Katie Kemp, a physical education teacher at Hauser Junior High, who had just arrived home at about 4 p.m. on Delaplaine Road just south of Shenstone Road.
“He was in my backyard,” Kemp said. “I asked him what he was doing there, and then I started chasing him. I knew something wasn’t right.”
Kemp chased the man across Delaplaine Road until she spotted a Lyons squad car, and pointed them in the direction the man had fled.
It’s unclear why the man was inside the Addison Road home, police said.
“She was in a panic when officers got there,” said Police Chief Thomas Weitzel. “We’re not sure what happened. All we know is that a confrontation took place and she decided to chase him.”