An Oregon man faces hate crimes and attempted murder charges after prosecutors say he attacked a 70-year-old woman from India.
James Lamb, 53, was staying at a motel in Redmond on New Year's Eve when he broke into its office and attacked the owner, according to the Deschutes County District Attorney's Office.The victim and her husband are US citizens, the husband told the Associated Press, and have been in America for decades."We love this country," he said. "Our life has changed forever," he said.
Hate crimes remain at heightened levels, FBI report findsOther charges include second-degree attempted murder, two counts of bias crime in the first degree, one count of second-degree assault, one count of second-degree burglary, and one count of strangulation, prosecutors said.District Attorney John Hummel credited the victim, who"provided heroic testimony to the grand jury from her hospital bed," he said -- and the passage of a hate crime law last year.
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