Home invader strikes North Center woman with candle, arrest made: report

A man is in custody after he allegedly broke into a North Center woman’s apartment overnight and struck her in the head with a candle.

Police responded to the woman’s second-floor unit in the 4200 block of North Lincoln Avenue shortly after midnight Friday after the man forced his way through the door and entered her apartment, according to a preliminary CPD report. The 23-year-old victim confronted the man, who threw a candle at her, striking her in the back of the head, the report said.

Officers arrested a 36-year-old man in the building. Charges were pending Friday.

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