A suburban mayor issued a warning to the community after a report of a shocking home invasion that left a senior tied up and at gun point following a routine trip to the grocery store.

"Last night, right before the Village Board meeting, I was notified by the Will County sheriff’s office that a home invasion had taken place in Homer Glen," Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike wrote in a Facebook post. "The victim is fine, rather shaken, but not injured."

According to Neitzke-Troike, an older woman had pulled into her garage and was unloading groceries when someone near the side of her home came into the garage and held her at gunpoint. Behind them in her driveway, a car pulled up, Neitzke-Troike said, with another person getting out also pointing a gun.

The two forced the woman inside her hom

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