Jose Gomez III, 21, admitted that he used a knife to slash Bawi Cung and his six and two-year-old sons inside a Sam's Club in Midland because he believed they were Chinese and spreading the coronavirus.
A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attacking an Asian family in 2020 because he thought they were Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal court records
When pleading guilty in March, Gomez admitted that he used a knife to slash Bawi Cung and his six and two-year-old sons inside a Sam's Club in Midland because he believed they were Chinese and spreading the coronavirus. Bawi Cung is from Myanmar. . He followed them for several minutes because he perceived them to be a"threat" because they were"from the country who started spreading that disease around," according to the statement.
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