One arrested, two sought in Boulder hate crime attack
One arrested, two sought in Boulder bias attack - The Denver Post
One suspect is in custody and police are searching for two more who were involved in a bias-based assault in Boulder.
Olubiyi Ogundipe, a University of Colorado-Boulder student from Nigeria, was walking with another friend also from Nigeria, just after 2 a.m. Saturday, near Broadway and Pleasant streets.
Three suspects walking behind them used the n-word, called the victims monkeys and told them to go back to their country, according to a police report.
Ogundipe, 19, turned around and confronted the suspects but the suspects began punching him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
A campus police officer who was driving by witnessed the assault and stopped to help, at which point the suspects ran.
Joseph Owen Coy, 22, of Lafayette was arrested after a short foot chase. Coy is the suspect believed to have punched Ogundipe.
He was booked into jail on charges of bias-motivated crime, which is a felony, and for obstruction.