SWAT teams swarm Englewood home after woman carjacked at gunpoint in Lakeview

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Two people were arrested early Thursday after allegedly carjacking a woman at gunpoint in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side and hiding from police SWAT teams inside a South Side building.

About 11 p.m. Wednesday, a male and female pointed a gun at a 52-year-old woman as she walked on a sidewalk in front of a residence in the 800 block of Fletcher, according to Chicago police. They forced her to hand over her purse, cell phone and the keys to her van.

Officers spotted the stolen van at the intersection of Belmont Avenue and Lake Shore Drive and tailed the vehicle until it crashed in the 6600 block of South Bishop in Englewood, police said.

The male and female dashed inside a building on that block and refused to come out for hours, police said. SWAT teams staked the scene until breaking in shortly before 5 a.m., when the two were taken into custody.

No one was injured, police said. Charges are pending for the male and female.

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