Man Charged with Hate Crime After Attacking Vietnam Veteran in Wheelchair!

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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