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A gun was pulled on an Oak Park resident Saturday morning, when he confronted a young man who was trying to cut the catalytic converter from his neighbor’s car. The victim had noticed the young man partially underneath his neighbor’s 2017 orange Kia Sportage at 9:15 a.m., Aug. 6 in the 400 block of North Oak Park Avenue.

When the resident confronted the offender, a second young man hopped out of a nearby black vehicle and lifted up his shirt to reveal a gray metallic handgun. The two offenders then fled in the black vehicle without taking anything. They were last seen driving southbound on Euclid Avenue.

These items, obtained from the Oak Park Police Department, came from reports through Aug. 2 to Aug. 8 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.