Officers found Martise Earl Lowe, 21, getting off the train at the Brown Line’s Western station late Thursday or early Friday, carrying an Apple laptop later identified as the victim’s.
Lowe trailed the woman from the Brown Line’s Paulina station to her home in the 1700 block of West Henderson Street. He then entered her house, grasped her throat and threw her to the floor. Lowe took an iPhone and computer from the home.
As police looked for the robber, an attendant at the Paulina station remembered a man matching the description who asked for directions to the Western stop. Police found Lowe getting off a train there, holding a computer. When they took him back to the crime scene, the victim identified Lowe as her attacker and the electronics he was carrying as her own. Police arrested him there about 12:15 a.m. Friday
