The authorities reported that On Monday, a man was arrested on suspicion of committing sexual crimes. for two criminal offenses and one hate crime, after allegedly shouting racial slurs and threatening to “shoot and bomb” South Asian Muslims in Sacaramento Park, California.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced this on Sunday evening. Robert Avery, 33, shouted racial slurs and threatened a group of people at Heron Landing. at Rancho Cordova.
After the arrest was made public, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the group Avery had threatened were Muslim and South Asian.
Avery presumably He also tried to crush these same people in the park with a 2012 Honda Insight, the sheriff’s office said.
Video obtained by Sacramento-based NBC affiliate KCRA shows someone driving erratically through the park grounds, with passers-by screaming in the background.
No one was hurt, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said they were able to identify Avery as a suspect in the case with the help of witness statements, videotapes and other evidence.
According to the California Online Sex Offender Registry, Avery had previously molested or abused a child under the age of 18. It is unclear whether he served a prison sentence for this crime.
On Monday morning, authorities arrested Avery, a resident of Orangevale, a census-designated location about 10 miles northeast of Rancho Cordova, according to the sheriff’s office.
Amar Gandhi of the Sheriff’s Office told KCRA that Avery surrendered “with the help of his family” about 12 hours after the incident.after the police publicly identified him as a suspect in the case.
Avery was incarcerated at the Sacramento County Main Jail shortly after noon Monday and is being held on $125,000 bail, online prison records show.
The suspect faces one count of petty hate crime and two felony charges.: Assault with a deadly weapon and a criminal threat, according to prison records.
The man is due to appear in court on Wednesday afternoon.
Federal data show that in 2021, law enforcement agencies registered more than 130 anti-Islamic incidents as hate crimes.most recent year for which data are available, and that white people were responsible for most of the incidents.
In California, reporting of hate crimes has increased by about 20%. from 2021, when 1,763 incidents were reported, to 2022, when 2,120 incidents were reported, the state attorney general’s office said in June.
According to this report, the number of crimes against Islamic bias in the state increased from 18 in 2021 to 25 in 2022.
Bias-motivated crimes against Hispanics increased by 6.6% from 197 in 2021 to 210 in 2022.
African Americans are still the most likely to report hate crimes. In 2022, the number of reports from this community increased by 27.1%, from 513 incidents reported in 2021 to 652 a year later.
Source: La Opinion
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