Hate crime victim wakes up from coma
Nearly seven weeks after DaShawn Horne was brutally beaten in what prosecutors call a hate crime, the 26-year-old is out of his coma.
He was beaten with a baseball bat in Auburn on Jan. 20.
The crime that’s kept Horne in the hospital now, for 47 days – he was leaving the home of a woman he met at a Seattle bar the night before. That’s when prosecutors say the woman’s brother repeatedly beat Horne over the head with a baseball bat, while yelling racial slurs.