3 Attacks on Gay Men Prompt Extra Patrols
From Times Wire Reports
Police are stepping up patrols following three hate-crime attacks on gay men earlier this month.
The suspects in each case yelled anti-gay epithets and attacked their victims after dark in the Hillcrest neighborhood, the center of the city’s gay community, said police Capt. Bruce Pfefferkorn.
A 17-year-old suspect in one of the attacks was being held Tuesday in Juvenile Hall on charges of committing a hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon.
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