Ecuadorian brothers beaten in Brooklyn

  Eyewitness News

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- Two Ecuadorian brothers were beaten, one critically, during an apparently unprovoked attack in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn Sunday morning that police are treating as a hate crime.

Police say the victims were walking home from a bar when they were attacked by three or four men, who jumped out of an SUV, at the intersection of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue around 3:30 a.m.

Authorities say the suspects did not say anything as they began attacking the two brothers. But during the incident, the suspects apparently used anti-Latino and anti-gay slurs. Police believe the suspects may have mistaken the brothers for a gay couple.

One of the brothers, a 31-year-old man, was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition. He is on life support with severe head trauma.

No suspects have been taken into custody.

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