Police chief’s son arrested after Sikh attacked in Central California
UPDATE: 8/9/2018 11:01 a.m. A California police chief says his family is “shaken to the core” after his son was arrested in the beating of a 71-year-old Sikh man.
Eighteen-year-old Tyrone McAllister and a 16-year-old boy could face charges including attempted robbery, elder abuse and assault following Monday’s attack in Manteca.
Police say they’re investigating the attack as a robbery, not a hate crime.
McAllister is the son of Union City Police Chief Darryl McAllister, who wrote Wednesday on Facebook that “words can barely describe how embarrassed, dejected, and hurt my wife, daughters, and I feel right now.”
The chief said his son has been estranged.
The Modesto Bee newspaper reports the victim was walking in a park when two people attacked him. Surveillance video shows one of the suspects kicking the man.
PREVIOUS STORY: 8/8/2018 1:50 p.m. Authorities told CBS Sacramento arrests have been made in the broad daylight attack of a Sikh man in a Manteca neighborhood.
Sahib Singh Natt was attacked near Greystone Park on Monday morning. Loved ones say the attackers demanded money.
Surveillance video captured two people beating, kicking and spitting on Natt.
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Wednesday, authorities announced they had made arrests in connection to the incident: 18-year-old Tyrone McAllister and a 16-year-old boy. Both teens are facing charges of attempted robbery, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon.
Manteca police confirm that McAllister is the son of Union City Police Chief Darryl McAllister. Investigators say Union City authorities have been in contact with them and helped in the case. Family says Tyrone has recently been estranged from them.
Investigators are still looking into whether the attack could be charged as a hate crime.
Detectives say numerous tips they got during the investigation helped them identify the suspects.
Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered at the park just feet away from where the 71-year-old was attacked to rally in support.
This comes just days after another Sikh man in the Turlock area was the target of a hate crime.
Police do not believe the attacks are connected.
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Another Sikh man was attacked in central California but police say they are treating the assault as an attempted robbery and not a hate crime.
The 71-year-old man was walking along a park in Manteca when two men attacked him Monday.
Surveillance video shows one of the suspects kicking the victim to the ground. After the victim gets up to defend himself, the same suspect kicks him back down to the ground.
Police says that the man does not speak English and could not tell officers what the men said to him or wanted.
Last week, two men beat a Sikh man in Keyes and spray-painted a neo-Nazi symbol on his truck in what police are treating as a hate crime.
Surjit Malhi says he was putting up campaign signs for local Republicans when two men ambushed him.
