The teenage suspect reportedly said he thought the family was Chinese and spreading the coronavirus.
Three members of a family were stabbed in Midland, Texas, on March 14, including two children ages 2 and 6.
Suspect Jose Gomez, 19, admitted to police that “he stabbed the family because he thought the family was Chinese, and infecting people with the coronavirus,” according to the document. A Sam’s Club employee named Zach Owen was stabbed in the leg as he tried to stop the attack.The World Health Organization had declared the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a pandemic three days earlier.
The FBI said it has already started to see a surge in coronavirus-related hate crimes across the country, and warned that the U.S. will only see more as the coronavirus spreads, according to the ABC News report. “The FBI makes this assessment based on the assumption that a portion of the US public will associate COVID-19 with China and Asian American populations,” the agency said.
President Donald Trump has certainly not helped to discourage the connection, refusing to apologize for calling COVID-19 by the derogatory “China virus” nickname. Instead, he has issued tweets discouraging hate crimes against Asian Americans.A HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus
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