A suspect in Kentucky is accused of beating a man close to death with a wooden plank while telling him to “leave his country.”
Julius Howard, 49, has been charged with first-degree assault, the Louisville Metro Police Department announced. He is being held by the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.
Just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday, police were dispatched to the 400 block of East Market Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, near a McDonald’s restaurant. Dispatchers had told officers that they had received a report of a fight…