[MAIL] 'These family members ultimately restrained the victim using a rope. Held him against his will, assaulted him multiple times and even threatened to kill him,' San Bruno Police Department Lieutenant Ryan Johansen said in a Facebook post. Police said the teen boy was then released and he ran away from the home. He was then treated at a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime because the boy reported that Suarez, Arguello and Amaya 'yelled at him using multiple racial slurs and he believed his race to be a motivating factor in the attack,' Johansen said.
The teen boy is African-American and the girl's family is of Hispanic descent.
The teen girl's older sisters dispute the claims that their parents attacked the boy for racial reasons and claimed that the incident was actually an issue of self defense.