Cops: Englewood Man Ambushed, Assaulted Wife While Kids Watched

An Englewood man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly ambushed his wife in their 4th Ward home Tuesday, punching her and beating the woman with a laptop computer while two small children watched, according to city police.

Englewood Police responded to the 4th Ward housing complex Tuesday afternoon after the woman sustained “very significant” facial injuries and managed to escape to a neighbor’s apartment with one of the children and called police, according to Englewood Police.

The other child ran shoeless from the scene to a relative’s home more than a half a mile away, according to police.

“She was extremely distraught and concerned for her two small children who witnessed the beating,” said Detective Captain Timothy Torell.

Cops, who said they found the woman’s husband James McGill, 43, fleeing the scene as they arrived, reported that the woman had been strangled with a power cord, punched, beaten with a laptop, and threatened with a knife.

The woman, who was brought to Englewood Hospital for treatment, told police that McGill had been “lying in wait” and immediately assaulted the victim as she arrived home from work.

McGill was charged with second degree aggravated assault, criminal restraint, making terroristic threats, possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose and two counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.