Current Events > Slain terrorists brother is convicted of hate crimes in San Diego.

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The brother of Ashli Babbitt, the San Diego woman fatally shot during the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has been convicted of all charges related to a hate crime in Point Loma last fall, the City Attorneys Office announced Wednesday.
Roger Stefan Witthoeft Jr., who assaulted and hurled racial slurs at an SDG&E worker, was convicted of misdemeanor battery with a hate crime allegation and violating the victims civil rights.

This jury has sent a clear message that violent, abusive and racist conduct like this has no place in our community, San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott said. My office will continue to prosecute and hold accountable people who commit hate crimes and I urge victims and witnesses to report all such activity.

Prosecutors say on Sept. 14, 2021, Witthoeft became enraged when an SDG&E workers truck was stopped at a Point Loma intersection where workers were repairing a utility box, leading Witthoeft to slap the worker.
Witthoeft told him to talk in English you (expletive) immigrant and go back to your country, although the two were already communicating in English.

Witthoeft, 34, faces a potential sentence of up to a year in jail, one year of probation and a $1,000 fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 13.

Witthoeft was previously convicted of vandalism for a 2016 confrontation with a 71-year-old Latino man in Lakeside. The victim asked Witthoeft to move his pickup truck. Witthoeft came up to the victims truck screaming, kicked the mans door and kicked a window out of his camper shell, according to the City Attorneys Office.

In January, Witthoeft allegedly got into an altercation with another man on Muir Avenue in Ocean Beach, in which hes accused of striking the victim, knocking him to the ground, then stomping on the mans phone.

The San Diego City Attorneys Office said the victim was helping a disabled friend out of a car when Witthoeft encountered him, angering Witthoeft because the mans car was blocking a sidewalk.

Witthoeft was denied entry into a diversion program in a bid to have the charges dismissed due to the nature of the two recent cases, as well as the prior conviction out of East County.

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