The number of hate crimes reported in California surged more than 17 percent between 2016 and 2017, according to new data released Monday by the state Department of Justice, the third straight year of double-digit increases. Local law enforcement reported 1,093 hate crimes last year. 
 
 Crimes perpetrated against people on religious grounds accounted for the largest increase, the report found. Anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic and anti-Jewish hate crimes rose by 21 percent last year, to 207, up from 171 reported in 2016. 
 
 Incidents involving a person's real or perceived sexual orientation jumped nearly 19 percent, with 246 crimes committed last year, compared with 207 the year prior. Crimes against gay males accounted for the largest number, with 172 last year. 
 
 Race-related crimes increased 16 percent year-over-year, with 602 reported last year. 
 
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 Those involving anti-Hispanic or anti-Latino bias jumped about 52 percent in 2017, with 126 incidents reported. Crimes involving anti-black or anti-African-American bias jumped more than 20 percent, to 302 crimes. 
 
 The 2017 numbers reflect a sharp increase from 2016, when law enforcement agencies reported an 11 percent spike in total hate crimes. The latest report comes roughly a month after a state audit found that California undercounts the incidents. 
 
 California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released the data Monday, a collection of statistics reported by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies across the state. Of the total hate crimes last year, 383 were referred for prosecution. ||||| GoFundMe has verified that the funds raised will go directly to the intended recipient. 
 
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 Police are searching for multiple suspects after an attack on a 92-year-old man in his South Los Angeles-area neighborhood was caught on video on Wednesday. 
 
 Rodolfo Rodriguez had just finished dinner on Fourth of July and was on his daily walk around the block near his Willowbrook home when he was assaulted, his family said. 
 
 He was confronted by a woman with a child by her side after allegedly bumping into the young girl, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials confirmed. 
 
 He was left severely bloodied and unable to walk with bruised ribs, a broken cheek bone, a battered face and head injuries, his family said. 
 
 “There’s no words to explain it,” said Rodriguez's his grandson Erik Mendoza, who hasn't left his grandpa's bedside. 
 
 According to Mendoza, the woman in the video pushes him to the floor before grabbing a brick and beating him with it. 
 
 “And then when one of the witnesses comes out of her car and starts screaming at her, four other guys come in and start kicking on him,” Mendoza told KTLA. 
 
 Misbel Borjas, Rodriguez's neighbor, said she was the witness involved. Borjas said she also came under attack after she tried helping her friend and claims the mother “tried to hit me with the same rock like hit him.” 
 
 Rodriguez’s family said they’re grateful he’ll eventually recover from his serious injuries, but they fear someone else may be targeted if those suspects remain on the streets. 
 
 “How can you hurt a 92-year-old man? What kind of threat does he pose to you, for you to do this to him?" Mendoza asked. "That's why we're still in shock, as you can see he's badly injured.” 
 
 Rodriguez, who was interviewed by investigators, doesn’t remember much about the incident, but he was able to identify his alleged attacker in the video. 
 
 Authorities are now searching for five suspects: four men and the woman seen in video, Sheriff's Deputy D'Angelo Robinson said. 
 
 "We are concerned, especially with the type of crime they committed," he told KTLA. "There was what appears to be a 4-year-old child there who witnessed the entire thing. We can't have these kind of people like that out in the streets." 
 
 The family has created a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the cost of Rodriguez's treatment and recovery.
– A 91-year-old Mexican man went for a walk in California. Now "I can't walk anymore," Rodolfo Rodriguez tells CNN from his family's Los Angeles County home, where he's recovering from a broken jaw, broken cheekbones, two broken ribs, and plenty of bruises—the result of a heinous attack on the Fourth of July. Rodriguez—a permanent resident, per the Washington Post—says he was headed to a Willowbrook park when he passed a woman who "hit me until she was done." A witness describes hearing the woman say "go back to your country, go back to Mexico" as she repeatedly struck Rodriguez in the head with a concrete block. A group of men then joined in the beating, kicking Rodriguez and stomping his head, after the woman claimed the elderly man was trying to take her young daughter, who was present, Rodriguez says. "That's not true. In the years I have been alive I have never offended anyone," Rodriguez continues, also denying bumping into the girl, as some media outlets reported. "There's no words to explain it," adds his grandson, who's launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for his grandfather's medical bills; more than $180,000 has been raised so far. "What kind of harm can he mean to anyone?" Per KTLA, Rodriguez was able to identify his attacker from video footage of the incident, which follows a 52% increase in anti-Hispanic and anti-Latino crimes in California in 2017, reports the Sacramento Bee. Police are now looking for a female suspect and three to four males. "We are concerned, especially with the type of crime they committed," says a sheriff's deputy, noting a 4-year-old child apparently witnessed the attack. "We can't have these kind of people … out in the streets."