Looks like his mom and her friends then decided to take matters into their own hands. Now they're all in prison.
RIP, Mr. Barnes.
Thank you for the link.
I’m reading similarly, that the reason behind the assault (now murder) is over gas pumping tips: The homeless man hung out in front of the gas station picking up spare change in exchange for pumping gasoline for people driving up to the pump. I would presume that Philadelphia has long ago given up on anti-loitering enforcement.
Apparently, the mother of the 10-year old boy used to drop him off there to do the same thing — collecting spare change in exchange for pumping gasoline. Reportedly there was some kind of confrontation between the homeless bum and and the kid, so the boy ran home to tell his family of neck-tattooed crackheads about it. They all piled into their rattletrap minivan with weapons and drove back to the gas station and ultimately killed the homeless man.
Here’s at least one good reason I only get refills of gasoline in entirely decent areas where the police keep homeless roustabouts and low income cretinous subclasses from being comfortable in their immediate surroundings. All we can do is keep on moving them down the road. I like marginalization and fully endorse it.
The only good news from this is that there’s an entire crime family that’s going to be off the streets of Philadelphia pretty soon once the cops round them up. Hey, it’s a start. Maybe their little urchin will have a shot at a decent life now that he’s become a ward of the state. Good luck kid. Stay away from hobos and inner city gas stations. That’s my advice.