(KRON) – A teenager was arrested Saturday afternoon for allegedly committing a hate crime against a victim while praying in San Bruno, San Bruno police said.
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At approximately 2:40 p.m., San Bruno Police responded to a report of a victim being threatened with a knife in the parking lot of a shopping center on El Camino Real. The victim told police he was praying outside 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 alleged ethnicity.” The victim later identified herself to SBPD as “Middle Eastern/Afghan,” police said.
According to police, the suspect then fled in a car and the victim was not physically injured.
Shortly after he fled, police found the suspect in his car. The suspect was identified as a 17-year-old who is “also believed to be of Middle Eastern descent,” the SBPD said.
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Police said the teen was arrested on “charges related to committing a hate crime, brandishing a deadly weapon and criminal threats” before being booked into the Hillcrest Juvenile Detention Center in San Mateo County.
Anyone with information about this hate crime is urged to contact the SBPD at (650) 616-7100. According to the police, information can be left anonymously.
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