Phil Velasquez / Chicago TribuneNeighbors and news media members walk through an apartment Jan. 5, 2017, in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street, where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities.
Terrence Antonio James / Chicago TribunePriscilla Covington, grandmother of sisters Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, is seen outside bond court at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Jan. 6, 2017.
Phil Velasquez / Chicago TribuneThis empty apartment in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street is where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilitieson Jan. 4, 2017.
Phil Velasquez / Chicago TribuneItems left behind sit on a window sill Jan. 5, 2017, in an empty apartment in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities.
Antonio Perez / Chicago TribuneChicago police Officer Michael Donnelly speaks with the news media Jan. 5, 2017, about how he found the 18-year-old man wandering the streets in shorts in the Homan Square neighborhood.
Phil Velasquez / Chicago TribuneThisapartment building in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street is where authoritiessay four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities before he managed to escape into the cold.
Terrence Antonio James / Chicago TribunePriscilla Covington, center, grandmother of sisters Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, is seen outside bond court at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Jan. 6, 2017.
Antonio Perez / Chicago TribuneChicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks Jan. 5, 2017, at police headquarters about the attack on an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities that was shown in a Facebook Live video and the resulting charges filed against four people suspected of the attack.
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Neighbors and news media members walk through an apartment Jan. 5, 2017, in the 3300 block ofWest Lexington Street, where police say four people held and beat an 18-year-old man with mental disabilities.
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Read the Chicago Tribune’s coverage of a case where four people have been charged with a hate crime in an attack on a man with mental disabilities. The attack was recorded on Facebook Live.











