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Oct 18, 2007 8:00 am US/Eastern

Man Beaten With Bat In Possible Bias Attack

Reporting
Magee Hickey
STATEN ISLAND (CBS) ― Police are investigating a possible hate crime on Staten Island. The NYPD is searching for five white men accused of beating a black man with a baseball bat.

The victim is in stable condition with broken jaw at the Staten Island University Medical Center.

A fight broke out Tuesday night near the corner of Simonson Avenue and Huesden Street on the North Shore just after 8 p.m.

Police say a 20-year-old black man was with some friends when he leaned on or sat on a silver-colored Cadillac owned by one of the white men.

The Cadillac owner objected, and according to police, he went to get a group of his friends.

They returned with a baseball bat.

Police say an argument between the two groups started, and the angry words then escalated into violence.

Racial slurs were reportedly hurled by the white men, police told CBS 2 HD News, and one of the men used the baseball bat to smash the jaw of the 20-year-old black victim.

Neighbors in Mariners' Harbor tell CBS 2 that they find it hard to believe this was a bias attack crime.

"Well, this is a pretty mixed neighborhood, and we've never had this kind of thing before," one local resident said.

Police are still searching for the silver car that in which the attackers fled.

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