A Hispanic is facing charges in Illinois for having doused a homeless man with gasoline before setting him on fire on a street.
This Monday, a judge denied bail to Joseph Guardia, of 27 years, for having burned Joseph Kromelis, 75 , in facts reported in Chicago.
The incident was recorded last Wednesday.
Security camera footage shows Guardia standing near the victim, who was sleeping, before heading toward an intersection, returning with gasoline. The suspect sprays the liquid on his head and sets it on fire.
The flames engulfed Kromelis’s body, who is not expected to survive, for about three minutes before the fire was put out. Two Trump Tower security guards assisted him and stayed with him until an ambulance arrived on the scene.
Guard fled the scene on a bus. The Police arrested him two days later.
According to the information handled by the state prosecutor’s office, the perpetrator did not know the victim; There was also no provocation or argument prior to the attack.
Guardia was supposedly a courageous person who decided to arrest someone on fire, prosecutors allege.
The man argued to the authorities that he only wanted to burn the sheets and that he did not know that the homeless man was under them.
Guardia faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated arson resulting in bodily harm.
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Kromelis, who suffered burns to half of his body, remains sedated in critical condition.