Latinos Recall Pattern of Attacks Before Long Island Killing
Damon Winter/The New York Times

Sergio Yanza said youths threw sticks and rocks at him while he sat on his porch with friends.


By ANNE BARNARD
Published: January 8, 2009

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — Carlos Orellana, a construction worker from Ecuador, was walking home from work in this small Long Island town on July 14, he said, when about a dozen teenage boys on bicycles knocked him to the ground and kicked and beat him, shouting, “Go back to Mexico.â€