BOSTON -- A Norwood, Mass., man is accused of stabbing a man, stoning him and leaving him to be run over by a train because he dated a black woman, officials alleged Thursday.

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NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that Dimitri Long, 28, shielded his face from the camera as he appeared in Norfolk Superior Court.

"The charges are assault with intent to murder, mayhem, and civil rights violations. The dangerous weapons used were a lit cigarette and a knife," Assistant District Attorney Lynn Beland said.

Officials alleged that Long was angry that Joseph Parks, a white male in his 20s, had once dated a black woman. In September, Long and two other people, including Long's girlfriend, confronted the victim after smashing the windows to his house.

"He was then jumped upon, hit in the head and beaten. From there, he was dragged to a nearby apartment, which was actually the apartment of a co-defendant. Inside the apartment, he was beaten. He was stabbed in the area of the chest with a knife. Lit cigarettes were put on him, and there was racial slurs written on his back," Beland said.

The suspects allegedly yelled that Parks was a disgrace to his race. They allegedly pulled him into a car, where the racial slurs continued, and threw him out of the vehicle.

"They threw him out of the car while it was still moving. They moved ahead. They stopped. They backed up the vehicle and dragged him over to some train tracks, where he was in and out of consciousness, and the defendants fled," Beland said.

Parks managed to drag himself to a nearby gas station, where he called his father for help.

Long was ordered held on $200,000 bail.

The other two defendants in the case have already been charged.