Police are continuing to look for three people involved in the beating of a parking-lot attendant in the Gayborhood last week.
Asrat Mulugeta, 30, was attacked March 28 while working at the E-Z Parking lot at 1309 Locust St., between 13th and Broad streets.
He was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in critical condition. It is unclear if he has been released.
A man, described by police as a 30-year-old African-American man, struck Mulugeta with a brick and fled in a cab with two females.
At least one media outlet reported that one of the women is transgender, although police could not confirm that.
“That isn’t something I’ve heard,” said 6th District Capt. Brian Korn. “I don’t think that’s something you can really see from the video we have, and I didn’t read that in the witness account.”
Police spokesperson Lt. Ray Evers said he also was unsure where that information, reported by Fox 29, came from.
“That is not something we put out, so I don’t know where it came from,” he said.
The surveillance video depicts one woman, dressed in a pink sweatsuit engaged in conversation with Mulugeta in the lot. The woman re-enters the lot a few minutes later accompanied by a man who strikes the attendant and then leaves with the woman in pink and a woman dressed in dark green pants.
Korn said no money was taken from the victim but money appears to be missing from the booth.
The man has been identified as a suspect and the women as people of interest.
The Citizens Crime Commission is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the man’s arrest.
Korn noted that tipsters can give information anonymously.
“We want to get the word out in the neighborhood because someone might know who he is,” Korn said. “Even though it was a one-shot deal and he only hit him once with the brick, he really hit him hard and did a lot of damage. It was a real shame for this guy.”