10/19/2010 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- An Air Force recruiter was attacked at approximately 9 a.m. Oct. 19 in his office in Fairview Heights, Ill., by someone posing as an applicant.
The recruiter is a member of the 345th Recruiting Squadron from Scott Air Force Base, Ill. He has been transported to Memorial Hospital in Belleville, where he is being treated for non-life threatening injuries and is in good condition.
The assailant is still at large, and local police are investigating the incident. More information will be released as it becomes available.
(Courtesy of Air Force Recruiting Service Public Affairs)
Comments
10/21/2010 8:40:17 AM ET Hate Crime as defined by Illinois standards which is similar to most other states' definitions is a crime such as assault battery or theft committed against a person because of his or her ancestry color disability gender national origin race or sexual orientation. So no, not a hate crime. Someone saw a way to get close enough to this person to stab him which is aggravating, but not hateful.
Criminal Justice is for everyone, Texas
10/20/2010 9:16:56 PM ET An obvious Hate Crime. Should get all due consideration.
