Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The 74-year-old woman was watching television in her South Side apartment Thursday evening when she heard footsteps. Then she saw shadows in the hallway.
Three men walked into her living room, one of them with a knife, according to police.
More Top Picks Best High Contrast Keyboards For Seniors
As they bound her wrists and covered her mouth with duct tape, they told her they were not there to hurt her, according to a police report.
They took televisions, a laptop, money and three guns from the apartment in the 6700 block of South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood, police said. They took off in a gray car, leaving behind one of the televisions.
The woman was not injured, police said.
No one was in custody.