Man accused of assaulting veteran in wheelchair charged with hate crime
FOX 31 Denver
BY ROB LOW
EPTEMBER 4, 2015
BOULDER, Colo. -- A disabled Vietnam Veteran, who uses a wheelchair, praised Boulder County prosecutors for charging his attacker with a hate crime.
Heriberto Chacon, who goes by the name Xakon Con Passion, was leaving a Chase Bank ATM in Lafayette on July 18, when he said he was attacked by a complete stranger. “He assaulted me and punched me, he hit me, I can`t tell you how many times,” said Chacon.
Chacon has used a wheelchair for years because of nerve damage he suffered after being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
He said he was flabbergasted when the suspect, 61-year-old Jerry Dawson, started hitting him and calling him “a cripple” as he left the bank with his nurse MaryAnne Bowe. “If I wouldn`t have seen it and so many other people seen it, I don`t know that people would believe me,” said Bowe, who called the assault completely unprovoked. “I did hear him say ‘stand up and fight like a man’ and that`s when a bystander came and said ‘sir, sir, can`t you see he`s in a wheelchair’?”
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