FBI offers $5,000 reward for info on Georgia acid attack

The FBI posted to X, "The #FBI offers a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect responsible for an acid attack at Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia, on December 10, 2025. At approximately 8:15 p.m., a woman who was walking in the park was attacked by an unknown male wearing dark clothing who approached her from behind and poured acid on her causing severe burns."

Although a person of interest was identified, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson said that the man is now being interviewed by investigators after coming to police voluntarily. The person of interest has not been identified as a suspect as of Tuesday. "He is not detained at this time. We are just asking questions of him," Johnson said, calling the man whose picture was previously released the "Bugs Bunny Guy," per 11 Alive.

"It's important to note the difference between a suspect and a person of interest — person of interest can be a person that might have been in the area, could be a person that was a witness, it could be a person that has relative information. It could be a suspect. And so I wanna make sure that we're not demonizing someone, just someone we wanna talk to," he added. The mayor said that there have been dozens interviewed in the case so far.

The woman who was attacked, Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking in the park after a Christmas program at her church when the suspect approached her from behind, started pouring the toxic chemical on her head, and then ran off. The substance burned through her clothing, melted her key fob in her pocket, and covered around half her body in second and third-degree burns.

“She was instantly like, ‘Why are you pouring water on me?’ And then her skin started to burn,” her friend Connor Milam told reporters. “She looked down and her pants were starting to burn off her body. She started screaming. They didn’t rob her. They didn’t take anything from her. This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being.”

Wasielewski was burned on her face, scalp, hands, and legs and was transported to the Augusta Burn Center for treatment. Her son said the burns covered half her body. “We don’t know who did it,” her son Westley said. “She doesn’t have any enemies. She is a friend to everyone.”