Three additional Salisbury University students were arrested, increasing those charged to 15, for their involvement in an alleged hate crime attack on a man at an off-campus apartment, police said.

Three more people were arrested and charged with hate crimes in a targeted attack on a man who was allegedly kicked, spit on and called derogatory names because of his sexual orientation, police in Maryland said.

The Salisbury Police Department (SPD) announced on Thursday that three more people were charged in a hate crime investigation that involved Salisbury University students. Police said three teenagers were arrested in connection to an assault that happened at an off-campus apartment complex in the 1400 block of University