Grand jury indicts defendants on hate crime beating

ATLANTA - A Fulton County grand jury indicted three suspects Friday on charges of aggravated assault against the beating of two black men in what is being called one of the worst hate crimes in the city&#39;s recent history. <br> <br> Fulton County District Attorney spokesman Eric Friedly said 27-year-old Ulysses Andrade, 25-year-old Christopher Botts and 19-year-old Angela Pisciotta have been indicted on six counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal damage to property each. <br> <br> Friedly said Pisciotta has also been charged with one count of simple battery against a police officer, a misdemeanor. <br> <br> Witnesses say Andrade, Botts and Pisciotta were taunting passers-by on April sixth in Little Five Points, an eclectic neighborhood in east Atlanta, when Che Golden and his brother, Idris Golden, came out of a music store. <br> <br> The three suspects said the Goldens tried to steal from them, but witnesses said the suspects were taunting passers-by and beat the Goldens because of their race. <br> <br> A 29-year-old IBM employee, Che Golden, said ``I remember them pounding our heads on the concrete, stomping us, doing whatever they could to beat us down.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Twenty-five-year-old Idris Golden was knocked unconscious and suffers from some memory loss. Che Golden&#39;s injuries were less severe but his hearing aids were knocked out during the attack. <br> <br> Botts, who initially told police he was from California, has a prior criminal history in Georgia. <br> <br> His past includes a yearlong sentence at the Cobb County jail for attacking his father. He also kicked out the rear windows of the squad car when the police tried to arrest him.