Mesquite police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the suspect who brutally assaulted a lesbian in an apparent anti-gay hate crime on a playground at Seabourn Elementary School on Feb. 17.
Sondra Scarber suffered a dislocated jaw when she was attacked by the suspect after she tried to stop his children from bullying her partner’s 4-year-old son.
The suspect is a black male, standing 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 185 pounds. He was wearing a royal blue T-shirt and jeans. He was with a woman and four children. He drove away in a silver, early 2000s Chevy Impala with paper temporary tags.
Anyone with information should call Mesquite police at 972-216-6759.
