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.

Fifteen students at Salisbury University in Maryland are facing assault and hate crime charges after they allegedly targeted a man “due to his sexual preferences” and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him,

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.