A Chicago police spokesman says police will release images of people who were in the area the night “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett says he was attacked.
Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says pictures of the “persons of interest” will be released Wednesday evening. Earlier, authorities said they were expanding the search to get different angles of the attack.
Smollett, who is black and gay and who plays the gay character Jamal Lyon on the hit Fox television show, said the men beat him, subjected him to racist and homophobic insults, threw an “unknown chemical substance” on him and put a thin rope around his neck before fleeing.
Guglielmi says detectives, who are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, have looked at hundreds of hours of surveillance video from buildings in the area.
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