Victim: Man Yelled 'This Is My Country!' During S.I. Beating
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Hispanic man who was brutally beaten with a baseball bat says one of the suspects yelled "This is my country!'' during the bias-fueled attack.
Luis Maltez, a native of Nicaragua, needed 18 stitches in his head following the attack last month on Staten Island. He also suffered bruised ribs.
He says one attacker yelled a profanity while referring to "Mexicans.''
Maltez, who works as a cook, has lived in the U.S. for 10 years. His roommate, a native of Mexico, escaped from the attackers.
Police made one arrest Thursday and are still searching for two white men in connection with the attack.
A witness said there was so much blood on the sidewalk that it appeared someone had spilled a bucket of red paint.
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