Four Arrested in Austin Hate Crime Three adults and a juvenile were arrested this week in Austin in connection with last month’s brutal hate crime against a local gay man. Austin Police Department Sex Crimes detectives have filed charges of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon against the four suspects. Aggravated sexual assault and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon are first-degree felonies. Those charged in the case are Shawn Regan, 21, Donald Bockman, 24, Darren Gay, 21 and a 16-year-old male juvenile. Bond was set at $200,000 for each of the adult suspects and the juvenile will be held without bond. The Daily Texan is reporting one of the suspects is a current University of Texas student and another is a former student. According to the University’s daily newspaper, Gay is a biochemistry senior, and Bockman, is a former psychology senior Another account Police said the four suspects befriended the victim at an Austin gay bar and ended up going home with him. At the man’s home, the suspects beat and sexually assaulted him, police said. Ellis said court documents he obtained indicate that one of the men told the victim he and his accomplices were “Aryan Nazis” who committed assaults for sport. The suspects indicated they had committed similar crimes in the past. As amazing as it may sound, Ellis said, it was a second, chance encounter between the victim and one of the suspects after the assault that led to the arrests and charges. “The victim was shopping at an Albertson’s store when he saw one of his attackers,” Ellis said. “The attacker saw that he was spotted, and he ran up to a random customer and told the guy he would give him $20 to take him home.” Ellis said the customer agreed and, “On the way home, the perpetrator started bragging about the crime he had committed.” Acting on information from the witness who had driven the suspect home, Ellis said, police made the two initial arrests and filed charges against the four suspects. ...that must have been freaky seeing that guy at the supermarket.
I think it would be better to put them in prison for a long time where they will become somebody's b****es.
It's happened before... From Orcinus... ______________ Another disturbing hate crime, this time in Texas, involves a University of Texas student and three other young men who evidently wielded scripture even as he was inflicting violent harm on a gay man: Jacobs said the suspects met the victim at Oilcan Harry's, a gay bar in Austin's Warehouse District, and accompanied him back to his home at about 2 a.m. Once there, the four men allegedly forced the victim to sodomize himself with an object at knifepoint while they used homosexual slurs and denounced gay marriage. She also said the men made references to Old Testament verses dealing with homosexuality while they beat the victim with their fists. About two hours later, she said, the suspects robbed the man and left his home. She said the victim suffered minor cuts from the knife but was not stabbed. Worth noting: The chief perpetrator in this case is a man named Darrell Gay. This sounds reminiscent of the Danny Overstreet killing in 2000, where a man named Ronald Gay walked into a Roanoke, Va., gay bar and began firing randomly. Gay, as it turned out, told authorities he was largely motivated because he felt deep humiliation over what he considered the hijacking of the meaning of his surname by the homosexual community. He also liked to call himself a "Christian soldier." http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
befriended....great word choice. its not like you can say the guy had this coming to him because what happened is clearly wrong, but at the same time what are you thinking taking home 4 strangers? sorry...befriending 4 strangers a bar by taking them home... also, from what i understand 2 of the guys who raped him were openly gay.
If this is true, I guess it wouldn't be a hate crime. I guess it would be a self-loathing crime. Is that worthy of enhanced punishment?
