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Mary Bubala has more on the man arrested.
Calvin Lockner, 28, has been charged with a long list of crimes including attempted murder, carjacking and assault. He was charged under Maryland's hate crime law, which allows prosecutors to seek tougher penalties in crimes that are motivated by race.
Police say Lockner and two others beat a 76-year-old black fisherman at Fort Armistead Park Tuesday morning.
"He said the boys came from behind and had a bat and was banging him and knocked him on the ground. Kicked him, took his keys and sped off in his truck," said Kiron Moore, security guard. "I was like, `Oh my God, are you OK?' He was crying, blood everywhere. His eye was hanging out."
Moore, talking exclusively to WJZ, called 911 and comforted the victim until help arrived.
"His left eye was shut and it was like a golf ball," said Moore. "I just hope the gentleman is OK and they catch the people that did this to him."
Hours later, police arrested Lockner.
Baltimore police say the suspect has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on his stomach and even uses "Hitler" as a nickname.
Earlier this year, he was accused of beating his wife because she associated with minorities.
"During the interview today, the suspect admitted he does not like African-Americans. And we are treating this as a hate crime," said Baltimore City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Court documents show that Lockner told police the attack would not have happened if the victim had been white. The documents also note that Lockner is a member of two white supremacist groups, the Aryan Brotherhood and the Nordic Brotherhood.
"We have our finger on a lot of these insane, violent people that we need to be focused on," said Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld.
Police gave Eyewitness News an address for Lockner in the Curtis Bay neighborhood, but a person living at that house said they had only given him a temporary place to stay for a few weeks while he was going through a difficult breakup.
Neighbors in Curtis Bay were disappointed by the news.
"I am terribly surprised. This is the community that we live in and we don't seem to have any problems around here like that," said Denise McCumbers.
Mayor Sheila Dixon visited the victim in the hospital.
"He shared with me he had been doing this for a number of years. He enjoyed it because it was a way of relaxing. He also shared with me some other concerns he had about the park. It's some things that have changed over the years," said Dixon. "His family is shaken by this, by the violence and what was said to him and what was done to him."
The victim remains in serious, but stable condition.
Police are still searching for two other suspects.
The victim's family says police have asked them not to comment on the case until after the investigation is complete.
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