A Black man was savagely attacked in Seattle by the brother of a white woman that he went home with.
On January 19, DeShawn Horne, 26, decided to make the most of a Friday night off by heading to a club. He met a woman there who took him home to the nearby town of Auburn, according to the Seattle Pilot.
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After Horne reportedly spent the night there, the woman called a Lyft to take him home. But that’s when her brother, Julian Tuimauga, arrived.
The Lyft driver states that Tuimaugu asked him who he was there for, and the driver gave him the sister’s name. Tuimaugu, holding an aluminum baseball bat, then waited until Horne came out and argued with him before the driver heard “a thump sound like a bat had struck something,” the Seattle Times reported.
The driver saw Tuimaugu hit Horne with the bat and heard him say, “This is what happens when you bring black people around here.”
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At that point, the driver drove away and parked a few driveways down to call 911. He saw Tuimaugu continue to hit Horne even after Horne was unconscious. According to a police report, the driver also recorded the beating on his cell phone, which caught Tuimaugu using the N-word during the attack.
While the sister didn’t see the attack, she did say that her brother later broke down her bedroom door to call her a “whore.”
A “rage” attack
Tuimaugu admitted to investigators that he fell “in a rage” because he thought Horne had slept with his sister.
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The 18-year-old attacker has since been charged with malicious harassment, the state’s hate-crime charge, as well as first-degree assault.
Now, Horne is fighting for his life in the intensive-care unit at Harborview Medical Center with a traumatic brain injury.
“You just never think it’s going to happen to you or so close to home. I was just telling someone, ‘It’s different out here. Everybody gets along. It’s so diverse,’” his mother, LaDonna Horne said.