Calgary police have laid charges against a man accused in a hate-motivated assault over the summer.

Investigators say on June 24, around 2:20 p.m., a man and a woman were waiting to cross at a marked crosswalk at Southland Drive and Southport Road SW, when a man they didn’t know approached them and hit the other man.

He was heard shouting a racial comment before leaving the area on foot, according to police.

The couple reported the incident to police who began investigating.

The suspect later turned himself in to police in connection with a separate hate-motivated assault that happened downtown.

Charges were announced earlier this week against 32-year-old Kyle Thompson in a July 3 hate-motivated incident. In that case, he is facing one count of uttering threats and three counts of ass

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