He is known to most Chicagoans as “the Walking Man,” and he was reportedly set on fire overnight and now in critical condition.
For years, Joseph Kromelis has walked the streets of Chicago, known for his long, 1970s disco-era hairdo and referred to by downtowners as the “Walking Dude.”
Chicago Police say a 75-year-old man believed to be Kromelis was asleep on the ground in the 400 block of Lower Wabash when someone poured a flammable liquid on him and set it on fire.
Police say a security guard at a building nearby used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out. Kromelis was burned on nearly half his body.
No one is in custody. But police released surveillance images of a suspect on Wednesday.
Kromelis spoke to WBBM six years ago, two weeks after he’d been attacked in late spring 2016.
He told us then, “I’m feeling better, much better — little by little. My eyes, I couldn’t even open them for a week. Now, they’re not too bad, you know?”
Wow! Fiction becoming reality. This is literally an episode of Criminal Minds were a fireman sets homeless people on fire.
Did this “suspect” did in fact get the idea to torch an innocent homeless person from watching similar events on TV?
Kids no longer know right from wrong when they hear wrong messages from the Democrat party like maniac Maxine Waters urging people to get more confrontational, and Jen Psaki not condemning people rioting in front of judges homes, which is a federal offense to try to influence a judge.
Kids are being bombarded 24/7 with WRONG messages from psychopaths pretending to be “normal”.
Maybe we should bring religion back into the classroom. Reading a simple 2-3 minute prayer before school or work starts would not harm anyone and might be the only “normal” thing kids hear ALL DAY.