Homeless vet dies months after gas station attack caught on video
Homeless vet Robert Barnes has died after an April beating at a gas station captured on surveillance video. (Fox 29)
(FoxNews.com) - A homeless veteran has died nearly eight months after surveillance video showed him being brutally beaten by a group of people at a Philadelphia gas station.
Robert Barnes, 51, was beaten into a coma during the vicious April 7 attack at a Sunoco gas station in the city’s Olney section.
He died Wednesday at a hospital, the Associated Press reported Friday.
Barnes was pumping gas at the station for spare change.
Police said Barnes was beaten after a 10-year-old boy falsely told his mother that Barnes had hit him, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday.
That prompted the boy's mother, two other women and three juveniles to drive to the gas station and beat Barnes with a hammer and a wooden rocking chair leg, the paper reported.
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