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Wednesday, November 5, 2003

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the paintball attack of an Alaska Native woman.

Sonya Wharton, 19, was shot several times early Sunday morning. She described her attackers as four white males who made statements like "Natives suck" and "Natives should die."

The FBI is getting involved because the attack appears to have taken place on a public highway and was motivated by race, an FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez told The Anchorage Daily News.

The Anchorage police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

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Paint ball attack prompts FBI probe (The Anchorage Daily News 11/5)

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