Eight charged in anti-gay attack
Published:Monday | October 11, 2010 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP):
Eight suspects arrested in connection to the brutal torture of two teenage boys and a man in an anti-gay attack are facing charges including robbery, assault and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes.
The suspects were expected to be arraigned yesterday afternoon. Police were still looking for a ninth suspect, who was expected to turn himself in but never showed.
Police say the nine members of the Latin King Goonies gang went on a rampage after hearing a rumour that one of their new recruits, a 17-year-old, was gay.
Investigators say the teen was stripped, beaten and sodomised with a plunger handle until he confessed to having had sex with a 30-year-old man.
Police say the group found a second teen they suspected was gay and tortured both him and the 30-year-old.