Four charged in fatal beating of homeless man

A homeless man in Little Havana yelled a nasty pickup line at a young woman, enraging her so much that she and three friends beat him to death with a metal chair, a piece of steel rebar, a rock and a wooden stick, police said Tuesday.

The four friends, who grew up together and whose families attend the Church of the Soldiers of the Cross of Christ, have been charged with second-degree murder.

Police said the beating, which took place early Saturday, was so brutal that the 67-year-old victim's body struck and shattered an apartment building's glass door.

''It was pretty vicious,'' said Miami homicide Detective Freddy Ponce.

Janice Guillen, 18; her boyfriend Magdiel Wingfield, 28; and friends Jason Cardenas, 19, and Kevin Stone, 27, all remain in Miami-Dade County jails.

''We've all known them since they were little,'' said Cardenas' father, Benjamin Cardenas, a bishop at the Christian Evangelical church in Little Havana. Wingfield's father is a pastor there.
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