Chicago crime: Wife of Joe Bradley, man beaten to death at Washington Heights bus stop at 95th, Halsted, speaks out
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CHICAGO (WLS) — The wife of a man brutally beaten to death at a South Side bus stop spoke exclusively with ABC7 Chicago Wednesday.

Clementine Bradley says her 76-year-old husband had Alzheimer’s, and she doesn’t know why he was at 95th and Halsted streets in Washington Heights, where the incident happened.

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Bradley said she went out to watch the Bears game Monday night, and didn’t know her husband had even left the house.

She said, the next day the police came by to break the news of his death.

“She had a picture of my husband, just saying, ‘you know him?’ I said, ‘yeah, that’s my husband, Joe Bradley.’ She said, ‘well, he’s dead,'” Bradley said.

Bradley says she and her husband recently celebrated 41 years of marriage. She says Bradley was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease several years ago, and lately had been sleeping in their basement.

“He had gone out the back door, and I didn’t even know. I left the house and went to watch the Bears game,” Bradley said.

Chicago police shared the disturbing details of her husband’s encounter with a 32-year-old man at a CTA bus stop near 95th and Halsted. CPD responded to the scene around 9:15 p.m. Monday night.

Surveillance video shows Bradley hitting the suspect, but there’s no audio. And it’s unclear what led up to that point. The man then punches Bradley and shoves him to the ground.

ABC7 Chicago paused the video because it’s too disturbing, but the suspect goes on to beat and kick him multiple times before eventually walking away.

“They told me that a young man had beaten him to death, that they got in a fight. I don’t know what they could have been fighting about,” Bradley said.

Bradley described her husband as a kind, gentle man, never violent and not a fighter.

“That man was too old. He didn’t bother nobody. He didn’t bother nobody,” Bradley said. “You just don’t hear about somebody being beat to death, not no grown man.”

According to a police report obtained by the ABC7 I-Team, the same suspect continued his violent crime spree, allegedly carjacking an SUV and forcing a 14-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl from the vehicle.

The suspect eventually crashed in Schererville, Indiana.

He’s in custody there in Lake County. Charges have not yet been filed.

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