The victim's family said a Gettysburg College student carved the N-word into their son's chest at a gathering.
A student accused of scratching a racial slur into another student's chest is no longer enrolled at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, the college has said.On Sunday afternoon, Anne Ehrlich, vice president for college life, provided the update in a campuswide email to students at the private liberal arts school in Gettysburg, according to The Gettysburgian student newspaper.
They said the incident had occurred at a social gathering on September 6, and that someone their son 'considered his friend' had used a box cutter to cut the slur across their son's chest.'It is important to note that he was the only person of color at this gathering,' they said in a statement to the student newspaper on Friday. 'The reprehensible act was committed by a fellow student-athlete, someone he considered his friend, someone whom he trusted.
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