WASHINGTON - D.C. police are looking for two teenagers or young men who savagely beat a 76-year old to death.

Meanwhile, the victim's family is asking what kind of human beings would attack an elderly man.

Clarence Dews was walking along Martin Luther King Avenue when two guys ran him down with a bicycle before slamming him over the head with a club. He died a few days later from blunt force trauma.

Dews was a fixture in his southeast D.C neighborhood, living in a house there for 50 years. The retired federal employee and widower often went for walks in the evening. But on July 20 around 10:30 p.m., just feet from his home, two young thugs jumped him. One ran him down with a bike.

"And the other guy came up behind after he struck him with the bike and found a pole and hit him in the back of the head with it," said Michelle Dews, victim's daughter-in-law.

Dews was a heavyweight boxer in his youth, and his family says when the two assailants continued to kick and hit him he fought back, breaking bones in his wrists and hands.

Dews lingered for five days before dying from his injuries. Now, his family and friends are asking who would be so cruel to someone known for being so kind.

"I just pray for the guys and that the find it in their heart to come forward and to know that it was the wrong thing to do," added a family member.

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