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Wed Jul 31, 3:06 PM ET
By LIZ AUSTIN, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO - Two men whose van jumped a curb and crashed into pedestrians died after an angry mob pulled them out and beat them with bricks, witnesses and police said.
Autopsies on Wednesday showed that Anthony Stuckey, 49, and Jack Moore, 62, both of Chicago, died from multiple injuries and blunt trauma, a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said. Both deaths were ruled homicides.
Witness Taquita Mixon said Stuckey and Moore collapsed to the ground when they were attacked after the crash.
"They hit them with bricks that came off the side of the building," Mixon told the Chicago Tribune. "They didn't have a chance. It was a brutal beat-down."
Virginia Stuckey said her son was an unemployed day laborer and factory worker who had lived with her since January.
"I really can't believe that anyone would kill someone like that," Stuckey, 72, said.
The three women who were hit remained hospitalized Wednesday afternoon, two of them in fair condition and one in critical condition.
The accident happened just after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when the rental van apparently lost control and crashed into people on a porch, police Sgt. Robert Cargie said.
The occupants of the vehicle were then "attacked by a group in the area," he said.
Police said Moore and Stuckey lived nearby. It was not clear who was driving; the investigation was continuing.
Virginia Stuckey said her son was helping Moore move some items from an apartment. Stuckey said her son could not have been driving the van because he did not have a driver's license.
Mixon told the Tribune she was at the window of her apartment across the street when she saw the van swerve toward the house and strike three women.
"It all happened so fast, it seemed like he floored it or something," Mixon said.
She told the Tribune she called emergency services and returned to see a crowd around the van, some of them helping the women. Mixon said she saw five or six men pull the driver and passenger out of the van and then punch, kick and beat them.
Stuckey died at Cook County Hospital and Moore died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Autopsies were planned.
Virginia Stuckey said doctors told her that her son died from blunt trauma.
"I hope they send them to prison ... they didn't have to do that," she said.
Police spokesman Officer Thomas Donegan said he is not sure about the number of people involved with the beating. No one had been charged as of Wednesday morning, he said, because detectives were still piecing together what happened.
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