Key Takeaways
- Tywone Underwood, 34, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to residential burglary at a Chinatown home.
- On Oct. 3, 2022, a 32-year-old homeowner with a concealed carry license shot Underwood after Underwood charged at him from the garage.
- Police recovered the homeowner’s PlayStation, Yeezy slippers and Apple iPod from the garage after Underwood had moved them from inside the house.
- Underwood has a second residential burglary conviction from Lake County, where he received a six-year sentence for a May 2022 break-in in Vernon Hills.
- The Chinatown case took four years to resolve after Underwood stopped appearing in court in June 2023 and was later arrested in Aurora in June 2025.
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CHICAGO, IL — A burglar who was shot after he charged at a Chinatown homeowner with a concealed carry license has been sentenced to two years in prison, closing a case that took four years to resolve.
Tywone Underwood, 34, pleaded guilty to residential burglary before Judge Jennifer Coleman. She sentenced him to two years in prison and credited him with 207 days served in the Cook County Jail, as reported by CWB Chicago.
The shooting happened on the evening of Oct. 3, 2022. Chicago police responded to a “person shot” call at a home in the 300 block of West 24th Place. They found Underwood with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The 32-year-old homeowner told police he came home and saw that his garage door was open and a bicycle was leaning nearby. He looked through a side door of the garage. Underwood charged at him.
The homeowner stepped back. He drew his firearm. He fired once, striking Underwood in the abdomen.
The step back came before the draw. That small gain in distance gave him room to get the gun out instead of fighting for it at arm’s length. The open garage door was the first warning sign. When something at your own home looks wrong, backing away and calling 911 is always an option. A mindset that treats those cues as a threat until proven otherwise keeps you from walking into a fight you did not choose.
Police recovered the homeowner’s PlayStation, Yeezy slippers and Apple iPod from the garage. Prosecutors said Underwood got into the residence through an unlocked second-floor window, ransacked the home and moved the items out.
The case then stalled. Cook County records show Underwood stopped appearing in court in June 2023. He has been in the custody of various authorities since a June 2025 arrest in Aurora for aggravated battery to a government employee. That charge is an allegation, and he has not been convicted in that case. The 207 days of credit cover his time in the Cook County Jail before and after his three-year absence.
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He also has a second burglary conviction. Court records show Underwood pleaded guilty to a 2022 residential burglary in Lake County and received a six-year sentence. That case stems from a May 19, 2022 break-in in Vernon Hills, according to Lake and McHenry County Scanner reporting cited by CWB Chicago. In that break-in, a woman came home to find her alarm activated, her front door damaged and her master bedroom ransacked.
Chicago police arrested Underwood later that same day for driving with a suspended license. Officers allegedly found the woman’s property inside his BMW, including a USB drive holding hundreds of her wedding photos, and her jewelry on his person. He was not immediately charged in that burglary. About four and a half months later, he was in the Chinatown homeowner’s garage.
