Homeless Vet Dies Months After Attack Outside Gas Station
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A homeless veteran has died months after he was brutally beaten by a group of people outside a Philadelphia gas station.
Fifty-one-year-old Robert Barnes died on Wednesday at a hospital.
The attack in April outside a Sunoco gas station in the city's Olney section left Barnes in a coma.
On the day of the attack, police say Barnes and a teenager were at the gas station pumping gas for spare change. Later on, police say the teen accused Barnes of hitting him, prompting the attack.
Surveillance video shows a group of people pummeling Barnes with a piece of wood, a hammer and Mace.
Three adults and three teens have been charged. Prosecutors have said that the charges against them could be upgraded if Barnes died.
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