Salem man accused of threatening Black man with bat charged with bias crime
A Salem man hurled racist slurs at another man before threatening him with a baseball bat Monday, police say.
William A. Main II, 20, was charged Aug. 16 with unlawful use of a weapon — a felony — as well as menacing and second-degree bias crime in Marion County Circuit Court, according to court records.
Around 9:56 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 15, Salem police responded to a 911 call from a man reporting another man was…
