CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Riverside police said a home invasion led to a targeted kidnapping in their village early Friday morning.
According to Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel, three men forced way in the front door of a home in the 200 block of Quincy shortly before 2 a.m. Friday.
Chief Weitzel said the home invaders were searching for a young man in his early 20s and told his mother and 16-year-old sister to lie on the floor. Weitzel said the home invaders exchanged words with the man before telling his sister and mother, “Stay out of this or we’ll kill your son.”
The mother did not cooperate.
"She gets up from being put down on the floor. They batter her. So the offenders pistol-whipped the mother. She suffers a head injury. It’s non-life-threatening," the chief said.
Weitzel said the home invaders ransacked the house and took all three victims' cell phones.
A short time after the young male victim was blindfolded, taken outside and put into his mother's car and the kidnappers fled in that car and the Jeep Grand Cherokee they arrived in. In addition to the three offenders, two others were possibly waiting in the driveway inside the Jeep, Weitzel said.
Afterwards, the chief said, Berwyn police spotted the kidnappers' vehicle and gave chase.
"The vehicle flees inbound on the Stevenson Expressway at speeds over 100 miles per hour," Chief Weitzel said.
The chase was called off for safety reasons.
State and Chicago police later spotted the vehicle and gave chase, but also terminated it when speeds were getting up to 120 miles an hour.
Riverside police dispatchers pinging the stolen cell phones eventually pinpointed a location in the 4300 block of West 47th Street, Weitzel said. Around the same time, Chicago police found the victim at that location.
The man was taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Weitzel said. He was in serious condition from head injuries and from being thrown out of the vehicle, but is expected to survive.
His mother was also being treated at a hospital for non-life threatening head injuries, Weitzel said.
The incident is believed to be a targeted attack given the exchange of words the suspects had with the man, Weitzel said.
“We don’t know why yet, but it wasn’t a random attack,” Weitzel said. “The offenders weren’t just driving and picked this house to invade.”
No one is in custody as of 7 a.m. Friday. Officers are looking for video surveillance and are still trying to locate possible weapons tossed out of the vehicles, Weitzel said.