Texas man accused of attacking Asian family over racist coronavirus fears pleads guilty to hate-crime charges


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A 21-year-old Texas man who attempted to kill an Asian man and his young child because he thought they were Chinese — and therefore, he said, responsible for the coronavirus pandemic — has pleaded guilty to federal hate-crime charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday . Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight On the evening of March 14, 2020, just as the pandemic was starting to take hold in the United States, Jose Gomez III followed the family into a Sam’s Club in Midland, Tex., about 300 miles west of Dallas, before splitting off and asking employees where he...