The teen charged with making terroristic threats and attempting to extort money from Omaha businessmen is headed to trail after 19-year-old Robert Peck Jr. waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday.

When asked if that was what he wanted to do, Peck turned to his attorney Ashley Trankel and asked, "Is this a good idea?"

Peck may face more charges. Authorities are still investigating a possible hate crime element in the case.

Charged with attempted extortion and making terroristic threats, authorities say they caught Peck after he wrestled with one of the victims and had his shirt taken from him.

"It was taken to the UNMC DNA laboratory, the results were that the profile of the suspect, the defendant and the profile taken from the shirt were the same,” says Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine.

Har K. Dev is certain police have one of the extortionists. Since Peck's arrest he says no one has come around demanding protection money or breaking out windows. “I think they should be brought to justice."

But Dev and a few of the other businessmen want to see a hate crime charge added to Peck's sheet. "He went to this, we are Indian, this Indian store, then they went to Mediterranean, then they went to Chinese and some Koreans, so that proves that it's a hate crime."

Dev and the others may believe hate motivated the destruction and threats against the businesses, but proving it in a court of law is another matter. Officers are still working the case, trying to dig anything up.

"We have to have evidence to make sure that his purpose in committing these crimes was because of the person's race, national origin, religion and so if we get to that point we intend to file those charges,” says Kleine.

For now, Kleine will proceed with what he has and wait for more information, information that may come from co-defendants. The victims tell Channel 6 News there were several different people with Peck during these alleged crimes. Sometimes they were standing nearby, sometimes they stayed in the car.