Monday, June 15, 2015

Assault at ‘First Fridays’ under investigation, victim calls attack a ‘hate crime’

Via Billy

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Police are investigating an assault that was reported during First Fridays in Florence.

Investigators said 20 to 30 juveniles assaulted a Lauderdale County man and his 14-year-old son at Wilson Park on Friday, June 5.  According to the victim’s wife, who witnessed the attack, the group “was using slurs of race” while tasing her husband and beating him.

“Randomly, they just him me in the back of the head,” said 14-year-old Brandon Dawes. “I didn’t think nothing of it at first because, well, I thought maybe somebody tripped or something.”

Juli Dawes said her husband Kevin was trying to protect their son when they turned on him.

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1 comment:

  1. Randy CullinanJune 21, 2015 at 10:08 AM

    We could comment if we knew the story. Sad example of a story!

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