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Suspects involved in hate crime attack in Lynnwood appear in court
Beaten, trampled and called the "n".
This is how a disc jockey describes what happened to him in the Rec Room tavern in Lynnwood on Friday night
The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office considers it to be a problem. He is a hate-motivated crime and collaborates with the FBI in his investigation.
Detectives claim that this happened in the hands of self-proclaimed whites. supremacists.
The Sheriff of Snohomish County calls this case "disgusting".
In court today and in recently published court documents, including a statement of probable cause of investigators, we quickly learned what began as a typical musical evening
When he filed his complaint at the tavern's DJ that night, a 37-year-old black man told the police he was assaulted, stomped on the ground, trampled and called the word "order"
. the alleged beat, he was called t The word was said by a member of the group: "It's over for you."
Police said the group took off while they arrived at the scene, but 8 suspects were apprehended in two separate vehicles shortly thereafter.
In court documents, KOMO learned that seven men and one woman had been arrested.
Police describe them as "self-appointed members of a group of neo-Nazi skin".
According to the DJ, one of the suspects used his equipment without permission, told them not to do so, and when he asked them to leave, he said that the group had been attacked.
Six of the eight accused were heard today and the judge found a probable cause for the six people.
She ordered each of them to stay away from the DJ and the bar and set bail ranging from $ 50 to $ 150,000 for charges ranging from harassment malicious to the aggression. overwhelming evidence that malicious harassment is appropriate, "said Snohomish County Assistant Attorney or Tim Geraghty to the judge about the case involving a man from Bothell.
The state referred the judge to Report of an officer after watching a video surveillance of the Rec Tavern room that allegedly captured the incident.
[19659005] Four of the eight arrested are from the Pacific Northwest, including a man Bothell and another of Tacoma
One of the defendants, Nathaniel Woodell, stated that he was a musician from outside the city and was not part of the group involved. [19659005] He was not the only one to tell the judge that he was not part of a hate group.
"I was not involved in this incident I was just sitting at a table, "Woodell told the judge." I have a son and a house that I per if I do not pay. "
Each of the eight accused's police documents indicates that they are affiliated with a gang with Aryan Brotherhood.
The sheriff's office stated that he was associating with the FBI to ensure the most severe sentence possible.
He also thinks that the group was present for a rally organized on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Whidbey Island's chief of white supremacy.
Eight people appeared in court. today, but two cases were continued until tomorrow for their bail hearings.
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