Police Investigate Death Of Elderly Man Found Unresponsive In SW Phila. Home
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Police are investigating a homicide that took place in Southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon, shortly around 1:10 p.m.
According to police, authorities responded to a call to check on the well being of someone living inside a home on the 6300 block of Theodore Street. A neighbor called the police, on Monday, after they say they heard a commotion coming from the house.
Firefighters came and knocked on the door, but saw nothing out of the ordinary and left without going inside. On Tuesday, officials say the man's son called for the well-being check after not hearing from the man since Friday.
Police say they located a 77- year-old man inside the home, unresponsive with trauma to the head. Detectives say they believe the suspects broke into the back of the house and beat this man twice over the course of the weekend.
"There may have been an incident, Friday night, where he got beat up by kids in the neighborhood," said Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker. "He didn't go to the hospital from those injuries and there was like, on Sunday night, early Monday morning, the kids again broke into the house and assaulted him and injured him and killed him."
Police say witnesses claimed to have seen three men leaving the front of the house and locking the door behind them.
The man was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m.
Officials say that no arrests have been made at this time and they ask anyone with information on this incident to contact them.
