Around 9:30 a.m., one of the victims told police the suspect may have brandished a knife at him on the 200 block of University Avenue. The victim, man in his 40s from Azerbaijan, also reported the suspect told him to"Go back to your country."
Police said the suspect accused the victim of following him and then yelled to"Go back to your country,""We don't want to see you here," and"Leave our country." The victim rolled down his window to talk to the suspect, at which point the suspect spat in his face. As officers responded to the first victim, a second victim called police, saying the same suspect approached him while parked in the area of Lytton Avenue and Ramona Street. In this incident, the suspect accused the victim of following him and told him to step out of his car, which the victim refused.