A Texas guy who assaulted an Asian family at Sam’s Club was given a 25-year prison sentence.

In Sam’s Club, Jose Gomez III attacked a Burmese family after mistaking them for Chinese. According to authorities, Gomez thought they were “from the country who started spreading that disease about.” Gomez received a 25-year prison term for alleged hate crimes. Morning Brew is read by more than 3 million people; you should too! Federal prosecutors announced on Thursday that a Texas man who attacked an Asian family at Sam’s Club and accused them of spreading COVID-19 received a 25-year jail term for his hate crime offense.

21-year-old Jose Gomez III admitted to stalking a Burmese family in a Sam’s Club warehouse in Midland, Texas in March 2020 with the purpose to kill, according to according to a release by the Department of Justice. .

A father and his two young daughters, ages 6 and 2, made up the family.

The statement claims that Gomez thought the family was Chinese and considered them to be a threat because they were “from the country who started spreading that disease around.” He then spent some time following them throughout the shop until he left them to look for a serrated steak knife.

Prosecutors claim that Gomez came back and hit the father in the face, cutting him with the knife, before leaving them to get an eight-inch knife from the store.

The 6-year-face old’s was cut open when Gomez later returned with a knife to assault the kids in the shopping cart basket, according to the statement.

The statement claims that the knife split the child’s right ear and penetrated the child’s right eye millimeters away.
According to the complaint, Gomez would then knife a Sam’s Club employee who intervened to stop him from further abusing the family.
According to the press release, while being restrained by the Sam’s Club employee, Gomez shouted at the Asian family to “Get out of America.”
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major contributor to the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans, according to the Justice Department.

U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff stated in a statement that “hate-motivated violence will simply not be accepted in our society” and that “every person deserves to feel protected from such terrible injury.” The verdict handed down today “sends a clear and unmistakable message that our office will vigorously prosecute federal hate crimes while seeking justice for victims,”

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