( KRON ) — A teenager was arrested for committing a hate crime on a victim while praying in San Bruno on Saturday afternoon, the San Bruno Police Department said.
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At about 2:40 p.m., San Bruno police responded to a report of a victim getting threatened with a knife in a shopping center parking lot on El Camino Real. The victim told police that he was praying outside of his car when the suspect approached the victim and threatened him with a knife.
Police said the suspect then threatened to kill the victim and made “derogatory statements about his perceived ethnicity.” The victim later identified himself to SBPD as “Middle Eastern / Afghan,” police said.
Police said the suspect then fled in a car, and the victim was not physically injured.
Shortly after fleeing, police tracked down the suspect in his car. The suspect was identified as a 17-year-old who is believed to be “of Middle Eastern descent as well,” SBPD said.
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