The attorney for a Black teenager from South Texas says several other teens attacked his client with a stun gun on Halloween while wearing costumes resembling Ku Klux Klan robes.
At a news conference, Matt Manning said the Halloween assault involved high school students in Woodsboro a small town 30 miles north of Corpus Christi.
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Manning says that his client wasn't seriously injured. He didn't specify the race of the assailants but the head of the Corpus Christi NAACP chapter says he's calling the assault a hate crime until evidence is found showing otherwise.
Woodsboro school district officials say they're cooperating with police and the Texas Rangers in their investigation.
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