Police weigh 'hate crime' in white GI's stabbing death (USA News)

Police in a Tacoma suburb are researching the cutting expiration of a white fighter by one of five dark guys in a passing auto as a potential contempt wrongdoing.

Tevin A. Geike, 20, from close-by Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, was killed early Saturday after a squabble that started with a racial affront yelled at the white officers by one of five dark men in a passing auto, Lakewood Police agent, Chris Lawyer said, consistent with The (Tacoma) News Tribune.

"As of right now, it gives the idea that it could have been a contempt wrongdoing," Lawler said. "We're absolutely taking a gander at it now as a potential contempt wrongdoing. We're not set to say that it is, yet consistent with two gentlemen at the scene, it seems, by all accounts, to be racially spurred."

Geike, from Summerville, S.c., was strolling with two different troopers who said somebody in a passing vehicle "made some remark about them being white," consistent with Lawler. The white officers were heading to a gathering to commend Geike's approaching release from the U.s. Armed force.
Five dark guys escaped the auto, encompassed the fighters, accelerating a verbal meeting. The driver, on the other hand, canceled his companions when he discovered that a percentage of the warriors - however not Geike - were battle veterans.

As the aggregation came back to the auto, he said, one of the suspects seemed to find Geike, who fell. He had been wounded close to the heart and was draining lavishly. Crisis medicinal groups were summoned, however Geike perished at the scene.

Matthew Barnes, who was holding Geike in his arms when he burned out, told Seattle's KIRO-TV that some in the auto had shouted "saltine" and "white" at the warriors various times.

"I hollered back, 'So this is the manner by which we treat battle veterans now?' But we weren't searching for inconvenience and inconvenience discovered us in any case," said Barnes. "Also when police find them I make plans to God we get equity."

Police say they are hunting down a midnight blue vehicle and five dark guys in their mid-20s.

KIRO reported Monday that three men were busy in Pierce County imprison early Monday on examination of homicide allegations and could be joined to the case.