Vicious Housebreakers Hold Man Captive in His Own Home: Cops

SHOREWOOD, IL — A Shorewood man’s desperate screams for help led the law to capture two housebreakers who held him captive in his own home, police said.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, a resident of Cardinal Place called the cops when he heard his neighbor screaming for help, police said.

When officers got to Cardinal, they found an injured 64-year-old man and determined he had been attacked by a pair of housebreakers, police said. The intruders had reportedly fled out the back before the cops arrived.

The two men — Pierre Cole, 27, and Omarr Fahim, 26 — had forced their way into the house by breaking the doorjamb, police said, then prevented the 64-year-old man from leaving. The older man allegedly suffered lacerations in his struggle to escape.

The cops searched the area for Cole and Fahim and found them at the Joliet Inn on the Interstate 55 Frontage Road, police said. The two men were arrested and booked into the Will County jail.

Pierre Cole and Omarr Fahim | images via Will County Sheriff's Department