Meanwhile, one of three suspects charged for a string of election night hate crimes in New York has pleaded guilty. Brian Carranza faces up to ten years in prison. Two other suspects have pleaded not guilty and are free on bail. According to police, the three drove around Staten Island black neighborhoods on election night looking for victims to attack. A black Muslim teenager was beaten with a baseball bat, sending him to the hospital. They also attacked another black man, a Hispanic man, and drove down a white man they thought was an African American. The man spent more than a month in a coma.
Man Pleads Guilty in Election Night Attacks
HeadlineJan 28, 2009