Berwyn Police Blotter
After many such disturbances, one grows blasé …
September 12, 2007, 6:43 PM
A caller reported a disturbance in the 1800 block of Gunderson: a woman screaming for help in a doorway, while someone behind her tried to drag her back inside. Police spoke with the woman, age 41, who said she heard a loud noise as she lay on her bed watching TV, and went to investigate.
Entering the kitchen, she found her ex-boyfriend at the window. She screamed, “What do you want?” The 51-year-old man yelled at her to open the door. She told him repeatedly to leave, but her grew angry and yelled, “Open the f------ door!”
The woman said she then ran out her front door and yelled for someone to call police, since she had no phone. She told police the ex-boyfriend then pushed into the flat, dragged her into the bedroom, choked and punched her, and ran out. Handprints were recovered at the scene. The victim described the man’s van: white with a black passenger door and a temporary plate; she thought police could find it at a location in Maywood.
Officers canvassed neighbors for information, but were told that since loud commotions at that address were such a common occurrence, the neighbors thought nothing of it.
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