Man beat mother of 4 with bricks and stomped on her face to death before running off with her purse: Police

A antheral bushed a pistillate with a ceramic and stomped her to decease successful a Pennsylvania alleyway earlier moving disconnected with her purse, authorities say.

The Philadelphia Police Department announced connected Wednesday that investigators were looking for a fishy "in transportation with the homicide of 45-year-old Keisha Farlow," providing photos of the man.

The section aboriginal confirmed to Law&Crime that the sought-after antheral was 30-year-old Dawaun Lewis, and helium was arrested. The suspect faces charges of murder, robbery inflicting superior bodily injury, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, and possessing an instrumentality of transgression with intent, according to tribunal records.

On Sunday astatine astir 2 a.m., Farlow was successful the country of the 2600 artifact of North 24th Street successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Authorities allege that a antheral approached her with a ceramic successful his hand.

Surveillance footage obtained by Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI appears to amusement the fishy propulsion the unfortunate to the crushed and rise the ceramic earlier bashing her implicit the caput with it. He past seemingly stomped connected her look and chest.

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Authorities accidental the fishy — alleged to beryllium Lewis — past ran distant with Farlow's purse, which was recovered emptied retired a fewer blocks away. Police besides reportedly mentioned an accomplice to the attacker.

Authorities who responded to analyse Farlow's assemblage pronounced her dead, a decease that was determined to beryllium effect of blunt unit trauma. Two bloody bricks were seemingly besides recovered astatine the scene.

Farlow is said to person been a parent of four, including an 11-month-old child.

Lewis was scheduled to beryllium arraigned successful tribunal connected Thursday. He has a preliminary proceeding scheduled for June 29.