Three men were arrested in connection with a series of race-based attacks on an African American family in an attempt to drive them out of Compton, sheriff’s officials said.
A group of Latino males who claimed to be in a local street gang used metal pipes and shouted racial epithets at a black man who had recently moved into the neighborhood, sheriff’s officials said.
One of the suspects, identified as Efren Marquez, 21, allegedly pointed a gun at the victim and threatened to shoot him while he was being beaten with a metal pipe allegedly by a second suspect, identified as Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, officials said.
After the attack, the group left in a black sport utility vehicle.
