Sonny Forriest Jr., a city resident who uses a wheelchair and has been singing outside Phillies and Eagles games for years, got his prosthetic leg stolen by a woman yesterday outside Lincoln Financial Field. The leg, though, was found and returned to Forriest. YONG KIM / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Inquirer Staff
Posted: Monday, October 13, 2014, 10:07 AM
Police are looking for a woman who stole the prosthetic leg of a street singer outside Lincoln Financial Field during Sunday night's Eagles game.
Sonny Forriest Jr., a feature outside games at the sports complex, told local television stations an "inebriated" young women in an Eagles Jersey jumped into his lap as he sat in his motorized wheel chair and broke his microphone about the time the game was starting inside the stadium.
The woman, he said, promised to pay for the microphone and that he told her "just me alone."
The woman got up and took off through the parking lot, said Forriest, 57, who wears a Vietnams Veteran hat. When he looked he saw the prosthetic leg, which was valued at $2,000 and which he had taken off to be comfortable, was missing.
The thief apparently took the leg for a ride on the Broad Street Subway. Police said SEPTA workers found it on a train about 12:30 a.m. Monday at the Fern Rock Yard.
The leg was returned to Forriest at South Detectives, police said.
Police described the suspect as a white female, 22-25 years old, 5-feet, 6-inches tall with long dark hair and wearing an Eagles jersey and blue jeans
Police are looking at surveillance videos to see if they can identify the woman.
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