'They tortured him': $1000 offered for info on murder of homeless man

After a homeless man was beaten to death in East Ukrainian Village, community activist Andrew Holmes spent Sunday afternoon walking up and down a stretch North Ashland, handing out flyers and asking anyone with information about the victim or potential suspects to come forward. He was putting up $1,000 for any information that would lead to a prosecution.

"They tortured him," Holmes said. "He was suffering enough, just by being homeless, but to have someone come and torture him and beat him (is) unacceptable in this city."

The victim is still unidentified. For the last several months, he had slept in the doorway of a condo building being constructed in the 1100 block of North Ashland.

Officers found him with severe head trauma about 2 a.m. and he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police were treating his death as a homicide.

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