Chicago's 'Walking Man' Joseph Kromelis was set on fire while he slept on Wabash downtown early Wednesday morning, a Chicago police source said.
CHICAGO -- Chicago police have released a surveillance image of a suspect wanted for setting a 75-year-old homeless man on fire downtown early Wednesday morning.
A police source said someone doused Kromelis in flammable liquid and lit him on fire early Wednesday morning as he was lying on the ground at the intersection of Kinzie and Lower Wabash. "This is really not the first or second time something unfortunate like this has happened," said Ali Simmons, with Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.Activists say many more crimes against the homeless go unreported.
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