Alternative theory: these are two crimes of opportunity; in one case the victim felt he was targeted for his Mexican background for some reason, and in another, the responding officer has a habit of repeating the race of a suspect in his report.

*Yawn*

So in the time it took the taller female to hit the victim twice and for the victim to knock the bb gun out of the taller female's hands, the shorter female was able to go inside the apartment, find and steal a mobile DVD player?