Chicago homeowner fights off suspected burglar with a frying pan in wild video: ‘Got him!’
A Chicago homeowner fought off and chased a would-be burglar around his neighborhood with the first weapon he grabbed to defend himself — a frying pan.
Jason Williams was returning to his home in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood from work just after 3 p.m. on Thursday when a security app alerted him of the home invasion.
“Came in the house, I looked if there was an available weapon… there was a frying pan laying there, so I grabbed the frying pan, and at the same time the burglar came downstairs,” Williams told ABC 7 Chicago.
“At this point it was fight or flight, and I would rather do the fighting,” he added.
Security cameras captured the home intruder exiting the house before jumping off the front porch as the frying-pan-wielding Williams pursued.
The two men run around the front yard before exiting the camera’s view as three distinct bangs can be heard.
“Get out of here, I’m gonna kill you,” Williams can be heard yelling as the intruder runs for the front gate.
The chase returns to the front yard as the intruder attempts to escape, opening the gate but Williams delivers another mighty attack.
Two Chicago police officers walked up to the home just as the suspect fled into the suburb’s streets.
The intruder raced across the street before he eventually gave himself up and was detained.
Williams took to social media to share his story following the cartoon-style chase, saying he “almost killed” the suspected burglar.
“I just caught a f–king burgler in my house. Holy s–t… Almost killed him, Hit him with a frying pan! Got him!!!” the homeowner wrote on X accompanied by a photo of the man sitting in the middle of the street and a picture of the frying pan.
“He’s lucky the cops came. I was putting a good beating on him.. he owes me a new (frying) pan!”
Williams also snapped a photo of the burglar seemingly holding his head as he was placed into the back of an ambulance as well as the dented pan.
The brave homeowner revealed he was “ok” and the suspect was going to “have a headache tomorrow and was taken away by the ambulance.”
“This could have had a different ending, and I’m glad it had a good one,” Williams told the outlet. “My wife’s not happy about the decision I made… probably wouldn’t do it again, but it is what it is.”
Williams cooked a seafood dinner — in a frying pan — to cap off his eventful afternoon.
“My night to cook. Making swordfish basted in butter and garlic with asparagus. Pan fried of course…” he joked in a separate post on X.
Williams didn’t cook on the pan he used against the burglar as it was out of commission until he fixed it.
Over the last year, Chicago has seen over 3,400 burglaries, an increase from the 3,346 the Windy City saw over the same time frame in 2023, according to Chicago Police data.
The police department confirmed to WLS-TV that a suspect was taken into custody but it was unknown if any charges were filed.
