A Las Vegas man connected to a string of crimes against Black people for several months finally has wound up behind bars and charged with two counts of hate crimes.
Hunter Holman is accused of committing racially motivated acts toward Black people dating back to May 2022.
On Feb. 22, Las Vegas Police Department received a tip from the Arkansas FBI unit about Holman allegedly threatening to kill Black people at a local Arkansas gym with an AR-15.
The Las Vegas Police department recognized the name and mentioned that Holman has a list of racially motivated crimes against Black people, including one against a Black family that led to him being arrested and charged. Holman was out on bail for the incident involving the Black family and had charges of assault with a deadly weapon motivated by bias or hatred.
Police records show that on July 9, 2022, Holman committed assault with a deadly weapon as a hate crime against a Black family walking down the street. At 10:24 p.m. that evening, Holman called police to report that a Black man had stabbed him. He was then taken to UMC Trauma Center, where he was treated for his injuries and was to be interviewed.
He couldn’t conduct an interview at the hospital because he had to be intubated, but later he told police he got into an argument with a Black man and woman that blocked his right of way. He said that the confrontation led to him being stabbed.
Police later found that Holman’s story was not true when they interviewed a witness and obtained video surveillance of the incident from the hotel.
“In this incident, Holman randomly picked out a Black family, almost ran them over and indicated he wanted to kill them,” police said in the report. “The Black adult male had to fight off Holman and stabbed Holman to protect his family.”
The Black male told authorities that Holman approached his family while they walked on the sidewalk. He started to yell racial slurs at them that included…
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