Cops Need Help Identifying Man on Fire

The unidentified man was found on fire in a Chester Parking lot on Monday night.

Authorities in southeastern Pennsylvania are seeking help from the public in identifying a man who died after he was found on fire in a parking lot.

Emergency crews in Delaware County were dispatched to a reported brush fire in Chester at 10:47 p.m. Monday.

They found a partially clothed man on fire in the parking area behind a row of duplexes.

Rescue crews extinguished the flames, but police said the victim was pronounced dead at the scene shortly afterward.

Police described the man as white or mixed-race, 5-foot-9 with a thin build, with brown eyes and graying brown hair and a chipped front tooth.

He was wearing a red shirt, black corduroy pants, a black hoodie sweat shirt, light brown boots and a thin tan belt.

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