Philly mob beats homeless man into coma with hammer [View all]

[philosslayer]

Two people have been arrested and Philadelphia cops are searching for several more suspects in a vicious gas station beating during which a mob used a hammer, pepper spray and a piece of chair leg to put a bleeding 51-year-old man in a coma.

Shareena Joachim, 24, and Aleathea Gillard, 34, were both arrested Tuesday shortly after they fled the scene, a Sunoco gas station along North 5th St., in a minivan. But police later released horrifying video that shows as many as six different people pull up to the gas station, jump out of the car and begin the vicious assault on the victim, described by police as a homeless man.

The entire confrontation began after a 10-year-old boy, jockeying with the man over who would next pump a customer’s gas for spare change, told his mother the man had hit him, police told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

But cops, reviewing hours of footage, found no such bump or hit take place. Instead, investigators unearthed the horrifying, family beatdown on the defenseless victim.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/philly-mob-beats-man-hammer-wood-slight-cops-article-1.2183202


My faith in humanity continues to wane.