Housebreaker Brutally Beat and Choked Ex-Girlfriend, Tore Hair Out of Her Head: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A Joliet man broke into his sleeping ex-girlfriend’s home and brutally beat her as he tore her hair out of her head, police said.

Antwon Flakes, 25, allegedly slipped inside his 23-year-old ex’s Juniper Avenue home and crept up to her second-story bedroom.

The girlfriend, who was sleeping with a 2-year-old daughter she has with Flakes, woke to find him standing over her bed, police said. She reportedly asked him what he was doing there but he did not respond and he appeared intoxicated.

Flakes dragged the woman downstairs and ripped her hair out, police said. She reportedly escaped his clutches and got outside but Flakes attacked her again, yanking out more of her hair and “leaving parts of her weave in the street.”

Flakes then pulled the woman back into her house, where he punched her 15 times and choked her, police said.

Flakes ran out the back when the cops arrived but was found a short time later hiding in the back of a van pulled over on Englewood Avenue.

Flakes was arrested and taken to the Will County jail.