Richardson police unsure whether beating outside mosque is hate crime (occurred after Garland)

A worshipper at a mosque in Richardson was beaten as he left a prayer service Monday night, a day after two Muslim gunmen attacked a controversial art exhibit in Garland.

A witness walking into the prayer meeting at the Islamic Association of North Texas first saw a man loitering in the parking lot about 9:45 p.m.

A half-hour later, when the service ended, that man and a second attacker “jumps one of the prayer service attendees as he’s walking to the parking lot,” said Sgt. Kevin Perlich, a Richardson police spokesman.

Perlich said the men never said a word to the victim as they knocked him to the ground and began kicking and hitting him. The attack ended when other worshippers came to the man’s aide and the two men ran off, taking nothing.

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