Three Bay Area men charged with hate crimes for allegedly assaulting men whom they perceived to be gay on San Francisco streets had videotaped multiple attacks, law enforcement officials said Friday.
A spokesman for San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris said police officers found the videotape in a suspect’s car. The footage includes assailants laughing and shooting air rifles at an unidentified man on 16th Street and Guerrero Street near the city’s Castro neighborhood.
The 24-year-old suspects, Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi, and Sayed Bassam from nearby Hayward, Calif., have been charged with assault for the Feb. 26 attack and are currently free on $50,000 bail, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
All three men are due to appear in court on April 8.
