A Schaumburg woman suffered minor injuries Wednesday morning after a stranger tried to subdue her with a stun gun at her home, according to police.

At about 7:15 a.m., police said the man rang the doorbell of the woman’s home in a multi-unit residential building on the 300 block of Falbrook Court. When the 26-year-old woman came to the door, the man said he was a neighbor whose toilet broke and asked to use the bathroom. The woman opened the door and the man immediately tried to attack her with a stun gun, according to police.

The man was unsuccessful as the woman began physically resisting and shouting for her roommate. Police said the man immediately fled. Police believed he was scared off when he realized a second person was in the home.

The woman suffered some minor redness and did not need treatment, said Sgt. John Nebl.

“We have no way of knowing if he was injured or not” during the struggle, he said.

The man is described as 45 to 55 years old, about 5-foot-11-inches tall and roughly 270 pounds with “a large belly.” He was wearing a gray pullover sweatshirt, jeans, a dark stocking cap and wire-rimmed prescription glasses. Nebl said the stun gun was not the long-range variety that uses darts and wires, but the type that requires physical contact.

Nebl said home invasions in the village are rare, and when they occur, the intruders are usually known to the victim. He cannot recall another incident in which the intruder was a stranger.

Whether it was an attempted burglary or an attempted sexual assault is not clear, Nebl said.

“We don’t know what his intentions were,” he said.