Women, Children Chase and Beat Purse Snatcher

About 25 women and children beat a man after he grabbed a woman’s purse in a high-crime South Side neighborhood. The man later died of a heart attack as paramedics treated his head injuries.

Witnesses said the man snatched the purse at a currency exchange late Wednesday night, and the vigilantes chased him to the front of an abandoned house, where they struck him with their fists and hands.

The medical examiner’s office identified the man as Charles Kimber, 29. Police were waiting for an autopsy report before deciding whether to file charges in the death.