LAFAYETTE, La. — A Lafayette man is recovering from multiple facial fractures after what he believes was a racially motivated assault while walking home from a local bar.

Dustyn Lance Cope was leaving the Loose Caboose after attending a post-show event when the attack occurred near a local intersection.

Cope, who is half Filipino, said he rarely goes out at night.

"I don't go out at all. It's like the one night I chose to go out something like this happened," Cope shared.

Cope tells KATC he was walking home around 2:30pm when he noticed a truck driving through the area.

"I saw a truck rolling through which I didn't think anything of, then it stopped," Cope said.

He said he then heard a group of men yelling at him from the vehicle.

"They were calling me slurs and other things," he sa

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