A family with children was enjoying a meal at a Fremont, California, McDonald’s when a 22-year-old man allegedly slapped the mother and made a racist remark.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Marcus Harper with a hate crime and battery over the alleged incident. According to the Fremont Police Department, Harper, around 2:15 p.m. on April 5, walked up to a mother, father and two children as they ate in McDonald’s.

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“Harper initially took food from their table and ate it in front of them ,” cops wrote in the press release. “Harper walked away from the table for a brief time before returning to the table to slap the adult victim on her face while standing behind her.”

Prosecutors allege Harper then stated: “You Indians need to go back to your country.”

The defendant then threw a sauce packet at one of the children, a 9-year-old girl, before leaving. Cops obtained an arrest warrant and located him sitting alone in his vehicle in the area of Marshlands Road and Thornton Avenue on Tuesday. They took him into custody without further incident.

Local CW affiliate KRON obtained a police report that said Harper did not deny his actions. He reportedly said that the father gave him a “weird feeling” and felt as if he wanted him to slap her. Harper claimed he blacked out at the time of the alleged assault.

A 49-year-old woman in Indiana will spend several years behind bars for killing her 10-year-old foster son by sitting on the boy’s midsection for several minutes after he had asked a neighbor to call 911 because he was being abused.

Senior Judge Michael Bergerson on Friday ordered Jennifer Lee Wilson to serve the maximum sentence of six years in a state correctional facility for her role in the death of young Dakota Stevens.

Bergerson suspended one year of the sentence, allowing Wilson to spend the final year of her sentence on probation, The Times of Northwest Indiana reported.

Wilson in October formally pleaded guilty to one count of reckless homicide in Dakota’s tragic death.

As Law&Crime previously reported, deputies with the Porter County Sheriff’s Office at about 3:37 p.m. on April 25, 2024, responded to a call regarding an unresponsive 10-year-old at a home in the 200 block of Falcon Way in Valparaiso, which is about 150 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

Once there, first responders found the boy — later identified as Dakota — lying on the ground near the home’s driveway. Someone was providing CPR to the boy, who deputies said was “not conscious, not breathing, and had no pulse.” First responders also noted that the victim had visible bruising to his lower neck and chest.

Deputies took over CPR until emergency medical personnel arrived on the scene and took Dakota to a hospital, where he died two days later. An autopsy determined his manner of death was a homicide, and the cause of death was severe swelling in the brain and being “deprived of oxygen for an extended period of time.” He also suffered organ damage as well as hemorrhaging of the liver and lungs.

At the scene, police made contact with Wilson, whom they described as being “visibly distraught.”