Welfare check on elderly resident leads Westlake Police to a surprise

Welcome back to News 5 at 11. I'm Rob Powers. An amazing ending to a scary situation in Westlake yesterday. Police and the family of a 91-year-old woman unable to get a hold of her. But officers never could have imagined what they were about to find when they went to check things out. Our Scott Noll explains.

Westlake Police at the home of a 91-year-old woman Thursday night.

783, garage door is open. We're gonna make entry.

Police, her family, all unable to get a hold of the homeowner.

Vehicles in the garage.

The woman, a part of the city's R U OK program. We've told you about it before.

Hello, this is the R U OK.

Allowing residents to sign up for a daily call to check in, make sure everything's all right.

Is a really nice service that has saved lives in the past.

In January, we told you about how it led police to a woman who fell inside her home and couldn't get back up. This time, another woman not answering the call. Everyone's a little bit alarmed that she was missing these contacts.

What would police find this time? What's like police? To protect the woman's identity, police didn't release any more of that video, but what happens next, no one would have guessed. Turned out to be all okay, everyone got a good laugh out of it. Police found her all right in her room. We'll let the officers called to dispatch explain the rest. We're here with her now, she's playing video games in her bedroom. Pol video games but trying to

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