Chicago man faces weapons charges in Carpentersville

A Monday night call in Carpentersville that started out as a domestic battery ended with serious felony charges against a Chicago man after a chase and a scuffle with authorities at the Fox View Apartments.

Police say that at 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a call in the 0-100 block of Oxford Drive after Samuel C. Williams, 22, of the 700 block of West Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, punched his girlfriend hard enough to break her nose.

A security guard approached Williams in a nearby parking lot and he started to run. When the security guard caught up with him, Williams pushed him in the chest, then reached into his clothes and pulled out a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol and threw it in the grass as he ran, Cmdr. Tim Bosshart said.

Police and the security guard eventually caught Williams, who resisited every step of the way - the 30-year-old security guard sustained a knee injury from the wrestling, Bosshart said.

Williams was charged with two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon and single counts of aggravated battery, aggravated battery in a public place, resisting a police officer, obstructing a peace officer and criminal trespass to land.

He has a prior conviction for aggravated battery, according to a bond call proceeding.

Williams' bond was set at $90,000, which means he needs $9,000 to get out of jail.

He was unable to make bond and was taken to the Kane County jail. His next court date is Nov. 18 at the Kane County Judicial Center.

He could spend up to seven years in prison of convicted of one of the weapons charges.

The girlfriend, meanwhile, was treated at Sherman Hospital in Elgin. Police say they do not know what precipitated his outburst.