Martinez and one other man are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, for their roles in a hate crime attack on three Somali men outside an African grocery store in Dodge City in June 2015. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten is expected to decide on Wednesday their punishment for a June 2015 assault on three strangers because they were black 

 and from Somalia. Armando Sotello has pleaded guilty to one count of a hate crime for the attack on a Somali man who was sitting on a bench with two other Somali men outside an 

 African grocery Store in Dodge City. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Martinez used a broken glass bottle to stab one man in the abdomen, arm and back and slash another man on the arm. Omar Cantero Martinez pleaded guilty to perjury for falsely testifying during a federal trial related to the hate crimes that ended with a hung jury.
In an apparent hate crime, an Indian engineer is shot dead and another injured in Olathe, Kansas.