NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Two Get Maximum Term in Gay’s Death

Two members of a skinhead gang who were convicted of murdering a man because he was gay were sentenced in New York to maximum terms of 25 years to life in prison. It was the first jury verdict ever handed up in a so-called “gay-bashing” case in New York City. According to testimony, Erik Brown, 21, and Esat Bici, 20, went hunting with a third man in June, 1990, for homosexual, homeless or drug-addicted victims. They found Julio Rivera, 29, in a schoolyard known as a homosexual hangout, then beat and killed him, testimony showed. The third man, Daniel Doyle, 21, who wielded the knife that killed Rivera, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced earlier to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison.