Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, April 27, 1990                   TAG: 9004271004
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: EVENING 
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POLICE BELIEVE YOUTH HURT IN RACIAL ATTACK

Gary Wayne Carter was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for cuts, bruises and a possible broken cheekbone, police said.

Carter, a student at Jackson Junior High School, was walking in the 100 block of 18th Street Southwest, in the Hurt Park housing project, about 6 p.m. Thursday when he was approached by two black males, police said.

As a crowd began to gather, the men called Carter "white boy" and asked what he was doing in the neighborhood, police said.

At that point, a witness told police, the men threw Carter to the ground and began to "kick and stomp" him.

The witness told police another man tried to intervene and stop the attack.

When police arrived a few minutes later, Carter was sitting against a concrete wall with a crowd gathered around him. He was just beginning to regain consciousness, police said.

The 15-year-old was bleeding from his nose and left eye and had shoe prints on the left side of his face, police said.

Police said they believe Carter was trying to walk home when he was attacked.

Carter told police later that he could only remember someone asking him what he was doing in the area. At that point, he told police, he was jumped from behind and beaten.