has committed a crime or is taken to the morgue.
“You don’t identify a person through a mug shot versus fingerprints,” Bennett-Johnson told the station. “Fingerprints carries everything.”
The mistake only surfaced after authorities at the morgue took his fingerprints. He’s still a mystery man. According to local news station WBBM, investigators are now looking for the actual relatives of the deceased.
A Chicago police spokesman said a full investigation is underway into what happened.
“I can’t conceive of how a budgetary issue would drive whether or not a person who was a John Doe would be fingerprinted before they’re taken off of life support,” Bennett-Johnson and Brooks’s attorney, Cannon Lambert Sr., told the station. “If that’s the situation, something’s got to be done.”