Crime & Safety
DC Homeless Man Dies After Being Set On Fire; Police Seek Suspect
A homeless man succumbed to injuries he received last week after being set on fire by an unknown suspect along the H Street corridor.
WASHINGTON, DC — Homicide detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department and the ATF/DC Arson and Explosives Task Force are investigating a string of intentional fires set last week along the H Street corridor, according to a police release. Police say a homeless man, identified as Darryl Finney, 62, succumbed Friday to injuries he received when a suspect set him on fire.
On Wednesday, May 13, around 1:08 a.m., D.C. Fire and EMS responded for the report of a fire in the 900 block of H St., N.E. Fire investigators determined the fire had been intentionally set. MPD officers found an Finney suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated.
The fire was one of five police and D.C. Fire and EMS responded to Wednesday morning along the H Street corridor. MPD, which is investigating the cases as potentially being linked, released photos of the suspect captured on nearby surveillance cameras.
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Anyone with information about these incidents or the suspect is asked to call police at 202-727-9099 or text a tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE at 50411.
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