FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family, slashing open the face of a 6-year-old child with a knife during the 2020 assault in a store.
The Midland man also punched the father of the child and attacked a Sam's Club Warehouse employee because he wanted to kill the 6-year-old and the worker was preventing him from doing so, authorities said.
Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland admitted that he believed the Asian family was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic because he thought they were Chinese.
