An attack on an Asian family on a New York subway is being investigated as a hate crime. Sue Young, who was visiting the city from Nevada, told WCBS that a group of girls sitting across from her on an F train in Greenwich Village first began pointing and laughing and then escalated to ethnic …
New York killer Payton Gendron, who murdered 10 Black people during a store massacre last year, apologized to his victims in court Wednesday morning as a man lunged at him during a victim impact statement. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 13 people were shot on May 14, 2022, after Gendron drove from his home in Conklin, …
Two Georgia men are accused of beating a Kennesaw State University student earlier this week in an attack that may bring hate crime charges. Gauge Dakota Stanley and Kole Zuba Reasoner, both 20, have been charged with felony aggravated battery and misdemeanor battery in an alleged attack on Jalique Rosemond Sunday night at his apartment …
A self-proclaimed Ohio incel pleaded guilty this week to planning a mass shooting of as many as 3,000 women “out of hatred, jealousy, and revenge.” A federal grand jury indicted Tres Genco, 22, on charges of attempting to commit a hate crime and one count of illegally possessing a machine gun in July 2021, as …
A Marine discharged in 2021 on an “other than honorable discharge” pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal firearms charges, but it was his alleged membership in a neo-Nazi group that led a judge to order him to remain behind bars. Matthew Belanger was arrested in June 10 and charged with making false statements in …
A white woman on a bus in Queens got into an argument early Saturday evening with three black women or girls, one of whom hit her over the head with an unknown object. At least one of the attackers told the victim “I hate white people … the way they talk,” police sources told the …
A Florida woman is facing hate crime charges for allegedly pepper-spraying a group of Asian women in New York last weekend and yelling racist remarks, WABC-TV reports. Police in Manhattan have arrested 47-year-old Madeline Barker on charges of assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime and harassment as a hate crime …
A man with a lengthy criminal record is accused of viciously attacking a woman and uttering anti-Asian slurs at her in a New York City suburb, leaving her with severe injuries, CBS News reports. The suspect, 42-year-old Tammel Esco, is accused of punching the victim 125 times, kicking her seven times and spitting on her. …
A New York man accused of smearing his own feces onto the face of a subway rider has been released from jail under the new bail reform act. Suspect Frank Abrokwa walked out of jail on Wednesday without posting bail, after a judge allowed him to leave under supervised release, New York Post reports. Abrokwa …
The three men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday morning. A jury found that father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because he was Black. Previously, the McMichaels accepted a plea …
A 19-year-old Illinois man has been charged with breaking into his neighbor’s home and trying to beat him to death with a pipe wrench because he’s gay. A police affidavit says that Ethan Dickerson told the unnamed 60-year-old victim, “You know why I have to do this,” when the man asked why he was being …
A Florida sheriff’s department has recommended a hate crimes enhancement against a 58-year-old man who allegedly attacked three teens at a gas station while shouting racial slurs at them. Richard Burnham, 58, has been charged with criminal mischief causing $1,000 damage and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon related to the incident …
