2BigFeet
04-10-2003, 10:13 AM
I don't know how much press this got, the article is from the Journal News, lower Westchester edition on 04-09-03.
HARTFORD, CONN.
Police: 3 teens killed mentally retarded man.
A 39-year-old retarded man who liked to dress up like Batman and tell neighbors he was a crime-fighter was beaten to death in the lobby of an apartment building where he had been placed by state officials. Ricky Whistnant died at the scene Saturday. He fell and hit his head on a radiator after three teens pelted him with bottles of soda he had just bought, authorities who viewed a security video of the attack said. Even after Whistnant collapsed, police said, the boys continued kicking and pouring soda on him. The attackers fled after tenants called 911, but several hours later, police arrested two 14-year-old boys and one 13-year-old. Neighbors said they had wondered for months why social workers would have placed a mentally retarded man alone in the city's most crime-ridden neighborhood. "I don't know why he was here," said Hugo Nunez, who lives across the hall. "This could have been avoided." Whistnant, who weighed 300 pounds, occasionally dressed in a homemade "Batman" costume and shouted at drug dealers from the sidewalk outside his cinderblock apartment building.
Ow, my eye, my doctor told me not to get pudding in it
HARTFORD, CONN.
Police: 3 teens killed mentally retarded man.
A 39-year-old retarded man who liked to dress up like Batman and tell neighbors he was a crime-fighter was beaten to death in the lobby of an apartment building where he had been placed by state officials. Ricky Whistnant died at the scene Saturday. He fell and hit his head on a radiator after three teens pelted him with bottles of soda he had just bought, authorities who viewed a security video of the attack said. Even after Whistnant collapsed, police said, the boys continued kicking and pouring soda on him. The attackers fled after tenants called 911, but several hours later, police arrested two 14-year-old boys and one 13-year-old. Neighbors said they had wondered for months why social workers would have placed a mentally retarded man alone in the city's most crime-ridden neighborhood. "I don't know why he was here," said Hugo Nunez, who lives across the hall. "This could have been avoided." Whistnant, who weighed 300 pounds, occasionally dressed in a homemade "Batman" costume and shouted at drug dealers from the sidewalk outside his cinderblock apartment building.
Ow, my eye, my doctor told me not to get pudding in it