WESTFIELD – A Chicopee man said he was set upon and beaten in the early hours of Thursday morning after he responded to an ethnic slur while walking on Jefferson Street.
City police were summoned to Baystate Noble Hospital emergency room at 4:24 a.m. Thursday by staff who reported that a patient said he had been assaulted.
Officer Edward Tosado report he spoke with the victim at the hospital where the man told him that the incident had occurred while he was walking on Jefferson Street abut 2:15 a.m., after the bars had closed.
He told Tosado that the occupants of a passing late-model silver-colored Toyota told him to “go back to Mexico”. The man said that he responded with a raised middle finger and then the vehicle stopped.
The victim said that two men got out of the car and struck him about the face and head until he fell to the ground and they left.
