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The father of the teen who was brutally beaten in West Seattle last week is outraged by the investigators' release of two men suspected in the case.
Detectives said they collected DNA samples from two men they found roaming the streets in the minutes after the beating of 16-year-old Shane McClellan. They swabbed blood that'd dried on the men's hands to compare the samples with the DNA samples found at the crime scene, detectives said.
The attackers took the teen's "Memorex touch screen MP3 player, $27 and change, his black puffy coat and his belt," according to investigators.
McClellan said his attackers then dragged him to an area where 14th Avenue Southwest dead-ends just south of Southwest Holden Street and continued to beat him for hours, until approximately 6:15 a.m. when they finally left, the document said.
"They continued to beat him with their fist and feet," "whipped him with his own belt and burned him with lit cigarettes," and "poured energy beer on him" and "urinated on him," McClellan told detectives.
Throughout the assault, the two men made claims like "the white man has kept us down," "how do you like it, white boy," and "this is for enslaving our people."
The two men took turns switching between beating him and taking smoke breaks, McClellan said, and when he made any noise, one of the men "brandished a folding knife toward him and threatened to 'slit his throat if he kept screaming,'" according to the statement. The pair also threatened to kill him several times, McClellan said.
Seattle police have referred the case to its bias crimes unit to determine whether it qualifies as a hate crime. Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact police immediately.
Dad mad suspects with 'my son's blood on their hands' released
The police let them go pending DNA analysis. Predictions?