He was opening the front gate at the Inglewood complex he lives in, like he has done at 6:30 a.m. for the years he's lived there, to get his gardening work truck out. That's when a tall man dressed in a green sweatsuit attacked him from the back.

Javier Ibarra, 41, was attacked outside his Inglewood home in a suspected hate crime. The attacker shouted racial slurs and fled with Ibarra's keys. Police are seeking information about the suspect, described as a man in his 30s or 40s,

Inglewood police are searching for a hate crime suspect who allegedly beat a gardener while shouting obscenities at him on April 15.The racially-motivated attack happened at roughly 6:30 a.m. while the 41-year-old Javier Ibarra was closing his gate in the 200 block of W.