Mestizo attackers say white boys will die.
By Mike Wiggins
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
One minute, Sam and Nathan Corle say, they were sitting outside a Grand Junction fast-food restaurant, enjoying a late-night snack.
The next, they were being assaulted by a group of strangers, leaving the teenagers with black eyes, bloody noses and bruises.
The father of the brothers is decrying last weekend’s attack as random and racially motivated and says he fears it could be symptomatic of a larger problem with street gangs in the Grand Valley.
“I’ve seen this, and this is not something we can tolerate in this community,” Greg Corle said.
The Corle brothers, who are white, say they and a friend had driven to Los Jilbertos, 2812 North Ave., about 1 a.m. Sunday to grab something to eat and were sitting outside the restaurant when a red Honda pulled into the parking lot and a group of young Hispanic men got out.
Nathan Corle, 16, said the men began yelling at them, calling them “white boys” and asking them what they were looking at and if they wanted to fight. He said he laughed because he thought it was a joke.
Sam Corle, 19, said he had his head down and was taking a bite of his burrito when one of the men ran around behind him and punched him in the side of his head.
“I had no idea why they were attacking us,” Nathan Corle said. “No normal person walks up and hits someone for no reason.” *
* We couldn’t agree more. — Ed