COEUR d’ALENE — Prosecutors are gathering information for an upcoming trial against a 52-year-old Hayden man accused of yelling racial slurs at members of a Spokane youth group in front of a Coeur d’Alene McDonald’s last month.

Richard Sovenski has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge and to felony malicious harassment stemming from a July 12 incident in which he and his son yelled at a youth leader and about a dozen teens from a church group, prompting a call from witnesses to police.

One of the alleged victims told police Sovenski had pushed him to the ground and punched him.

City prosecutors are asking Coeur d’Alene police for police reports written by investigators and patrol officers who responded to the scene at the McDonald’s along U.S. 95 and Hanley Avenue, pre-booking sheets, DVDs including nine videos, dispatch logs and National Crime Information Center (NCIC) records.

The witness list so far includes eight police officers, two alleged victims and a witness who called the Coeur d’Alene Police Department around 9 p.m. as the incident unfolded.

The list also includes Sovenski’s son, Bryce, who is seen on a video yelling at the teens and at one point, grabbing his genitals; and two others who were with Sovenski, including Sovenski’s wife.

Sovenski’s wife, Colleen, told police she was in the McDonald’s trying to order food when the teens were being disorderly. She had recent shoulder surgery and worried that one of the teens would run into her, hurting her shoulder and her arm, which was in a sling.

Her husband told the youths to settle down before an argument erupted between Sovenski and Quezacoatl Ceniceros.

Ceniceros, the youth group leader, accused Sovenski of pushing him to the ground outside and punching him once.

Cenicerlos said Sovenski and another man yelled slurs at him and the youths, including “nigger,” “fags” and “halfbreeds,” before leaving the vicinity.

Police attempted to call Sovenski after the incident, but he would not answer his phone. He was indicted by a grand jury and arrested five days later.

Sovenski admitted yelling slurs at the group, according to a police report, and told detectives that members of the group had spit ice cream all over his car.

Sovenski will appear in First District Court Sept. 7 for a pretrial conference on the battery charge. His preliminary hearing Friday on the felony was vacated and has not been reset.