A group of skinheads unleashed vile racist attacks on a young couple and two Marines at a popular Southern California pier, federal authorities said.
The three male assailants are accused of seriously wounding three people in the alleged June 2023 attacks near the Oceanside Pier in San Diego County, according to a federal search warrant.
They first approached a young couple, with one of the men yelling “get that [N-word]!” before slamming a 21-year-old Asian man’s head into a concrete wall and repeatedly punching him, authorities said. The female victim was unhurt.
“Didn’t you hear my friend talking to you? Don’t you know who we are? We’re skinheads,” one of the attackers said, according to the warrant.
The 21-year-old man, who is dark-skinned, suffered severe head injuries and could not remember the names of household items or certain family members for weeks after the attack, officials said.
The trio then allegedly attacked two Marine officers from nearby Camp Pendleton who were described as “best friends,” according to the warrant.
The Marines — one white and one black — heard the men yell the N-word multiple times at them.
The Marines tried to ignore them, but the men proceeded to punch them in the head, the warrant said. At one point, one of the attackers placed the white Marine in a headlock and called him an “[N-word] lover.”
Several witnesses saw the attack and shot video of the assault.
Both Marines suffered head injuries, and one still suffers from blurry vision in one of his eyes, according to the warrant.
The search warrant identified the alleged attackers them as Austin Yohe, Johnny Lane and Daniel Burns.
One of the alleged assailants, Yohe, has an active Instagram account mentioned in the warrant. The account uses the numbers “1488,” a common white supremacist symbol. One of the pictures on the account shows Yohe flexing while wearing an Iron Cross, a German military decoration that was last used during the Nazi regime.
Burns has a tattoo on his arm that says “SKINHEAD,” according to the warrant.
Federal officials gained access to Lane’s Snapchat account and saw a video in which he “extends his right arm out in a Nazi salute and yells “Heil Hitler.”
Two of the men consider themselves to be members of the white supremacist gang “Hemet Coors 88,” authorities said.
All three alleged assailants claimed self-defense when questioned by police. Cops located two of the men near the pier and found a third at another location.
None of the men have been charged yet, though the warrant says charges including hate crimes, violent interference with federally protected rights, and conspiracy are pending.
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