Police report two cases of homeless-on-homeless violence in the last five days
This might be in the running for Kansas City’s most disturbing trend of the year: In the last five days, there have been two cases of homeless people severely assaulting other homeless people.
Last Thursday, a homeless man told police that his friend demanded that he buy them some crack. When the man told his pal that he didn’t want to, the “friend” beat the man with a pipe. The Star reports that after beating the man to the ground, the assailant tried to steal the wounded man’s wallet and backpack. But the man refused to yield his stuff. That’s pretty impressive because police found the victim with four gashes on his head. The paper notes that at the hospital, doctors had to shave the man’s head to look for additional injuries. The so-called friend — can friendships survive pipe beatings? — fled the scene.
