Authorities have arrested a man on multiple charges, including a hate crime charge, following an attack that injured an elderly Asian man in a Sunnyvale park over the weekend.
According to the city's Department of Public Safety, officers were called to Lakewood Park in the city's Lakewood Village neighborhood around 10:50 a.m. Sunday on reports of an argument.
Police said the victim dropped his cellphone during the attack. The suspect then fled the scene on foot with the phone. The victim suffered minor injuries, which did not require medical attention, police said. Several witnesses are cooperating with the investigation. Jesse Fausto Correa, suspect in an attack on an elderly man of Asian descent at Lakewood Park in Sunnyvale on December 4, 2022.The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Jesse Fausto Correa, was arrested and booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of robbery, battery, felonious elder abuse and commission of a hate crime.
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