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• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
• MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN GAY BAR
• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• VIO SHOWS SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACK
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• NYC MAN SENTENCED FOR VLENT UNPROVOKED ANTI-GAY ATTACK AT BOGA
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

A spect was bted Tuday the strg of attacks on a Hell’s Kchen gay bar — and allegedly told ps he was jt “exactg revenge” on behalf of a gal pal fdg wh the club, police said. “I’m gay myself, ” Kuilan said as he was led out of a police vehicle and rted to urt handcuffs on Tuday eveng. The ctomers were not jured, thanks to the shatterproof pane stalled by owner David DeParola — who said was a preutn agast anti-gay attacks.

“Even sce then, there was a Zoom meetg wh lol gay bar owners and the precct clost to that was tend to help crease munitn between . 22, 2022, 12:31 AM UTCOne of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says. The latt cint, jt this past weekend, is beg vtigated as a hate crime, the New York Police Department taken Saturday night and verified by NBC News shows a person, whom thori are still tryg to intify, hurlg a brick at the ont wdow of VERS, a gay bar loted on Nth Avenue that opened July.

Erik Bottcher, a New York Cy uncil member who reprents Hell’s Kchen and is gay, lled the cints “hate crim” a tweet on Sunday and urged anyone wh rmatn that uld intify the perpetrator to reach out to the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force. “A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s wt si has been attacked repeatedly recent weeks.

BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME

”The attacks e as the NYPD also vtigat a seri of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year after they left Hell’s Kchen gay bars, the NYPD nfirmed this month.

The brick that was thrown at VERS did shatter the glass but sred patrons Wrabetz / NBC NewsOn the other si of the untry, wh hours of the cint at VERS on Saturday, a gunman Colorado Sprgs opened fire at a gay nightclub, leavg five ad and 19 wound. While DeParola strsed that his bar is a safe place and that no one was hurt durg any of the cints volvg his tablishment, he said he also feels the untry is a moment of “embolned anti-gay, anti-trans rurgence.

New York|Man Charged Wh Breakg Wdow Repeatedly at Manhattan Gay Bar ADVERTISEMENTThe attacks, four wh a month, had created a ep sense of anxiety Hell’s Kchen — a feelg pound on Saturday by a adly asslt on a gay bar owner of VERS offered startled patrons ee shots of liquor after the most recent attack. Moon for The New York TimThe New York Cy Police Department said a man was arrted and charged Tuday nnectn wh a strg of attacks on a gay bar Manhattan that saw s ont wdow smashed by bricks and a rock four tim ls than one Kuilan, 34, of Hell’s Kchen, the Manhattan neighborhood where the attacks occurred, was charged wh crimal posssn of a weapon, crimal mischief and reckls endangerment, acrdg to the Police Department. Muny — a feelg pound by a adly shootg at a gay bar Colorado Sprgs on Saturday that killed at least five and jured 18.

MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN GAY BAR

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Man Charged Over Attacks On a Gay Bar In Manhattan.

NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS

The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg a strg of cints which gay men say they were dgged at bars and left wh massive unthorized bank acunt whdrawals.

At least two other gay men were disvered ad wh spic bank whdrawals, acrdg to fay members who are soundg the alarm on their aths. "Word needs to get out, pecially the gay muny, that they are targetg gay men.... This same group of killers have dgged, robbed and murred untls young gay men New York.

VIO SHOWS SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACK

"Umberger, 33, was disvered ad an Upper East Si townhoe May after he left a gay club Hell’s Kchen wh a group of other men, the New York Tim reported Saturday. Jt a month earlier, another man named Jul Ramirez, 25, died the back of a b after leavg a gay bar wh a group of men jt blocks om where Umberger had spent the eveng before his both s, the men’s cellphon were missg when their bodi were disvered.

MULTIPLE BRICK-THROWING INCIDENTS REPORTED AT NYC GAY BAR John Umberger died May 2022 Manhattan. "VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKThe New York Cy Police Department told Fox News Digal on Monday that Ramirez’s and Umberger’s aths "are currently unr vtigatn and the medil examer will terme their of ath. " The police did not say whether the two men were targeted bee they were gay.

The Rz Bar and Lounge Manhattan (Google Maps)Other men, however, have also reported beg dgged and robbed of fanc after a night out at a gay bars and clubs Manhattan. "After wakg up, he disvered $2, 000 had been transferred out of his acunts through Paypal and Zelle apps on his New York Tim spoke to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy and then robbed. SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRESTED"[The NYPD] asked me if I had been asslted, and I was like, ‘Gettg dgged is asslt, ’" Tyler Burt, 27, said.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

’" The Boiler Room Manhattan (Google Maps)Burt said he was robbed of more than $25, 000 after beg dgged at the Boiler Room gay bar the East Village last asked about the strg of alleged dgggs and robberi agast gay men, the NYPD nfirmed to Fox News Digal that the "Crim Agast Persons Un, along wh the Manhattan North and South Homici Squads, are jotly workg wh our partners the New York County District Attorney’s Office to vtigate several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt. A man om the regn has been dicted for numero feloni related to a vlent homophobic hate crime attack on a gay man at an area bar.

A Woostock man has been charged wh multiple feloni for allegedly attackg a gay man at an Ulster County bar. Crimal posssn of a weaponMenacg, AssltCrimal mischiefHate crime legislatn enacted 2019 allowed for the elevatn of charg that would otherwise be nsired mismeanors to prosecutn at the felony level, said the Ulster County District Attorney's dictment by the Ulster County grand jury alleg Wilber, while at the bar, began hurlg homophobic slurs at the victim upon learng he was gay. The New York Cy Police Department is lookg for a man wanted nnectn wh a strg of brick attacks on a Hell's Kchen gay spect is seen a new vio walkg through a market wearg blue jeans, black tennis sho and glass, wh a green hood stickg out om unr a dark-lored NYPD Crimtoppers said a tweet that he had thrown "a rock" – later clarified by police as a brick – at the wdow of VERS nightclub on Nov.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

MULTIPLE BRICK THROWING INCIDENTS REPORTED AT NYC GAY BAR The NYPD is lookg for this man nnectn wh crimal mischief cints (NYPD)At least one cint of "crimal mischief" was ught on mera, and no one was hurt any of the cints. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt was the fifth arrt nnected to a seri of dgggs and robberi that killed two men last Q bar Hell’s Kchen was one of the bars where victims were targeted the Moon for The New York TimA man whom the Police Department scribed as a lear of a gang that perpetrated a seri of robberi and killgs at Manhattan gay bars has been arrted, law enforcement officials said on man, Jayqwan Haton, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrted on Monday and charged wh murr, grand larceny and other crim nnectn wh the killgs of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger, two men who were dgged at bars Manhattan, robbed g facial regnn technology on their phon and later found ad of enforcement said the motive for the killgs was fancial, but the murrs neverthels terrorized the cy’s L.

Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker om Queens, was dgged at the Rz, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, and left wh a group of men who abandoned his body the back of a taxi on the Lower East Si roughly one hour later, his fay month later, Mr. Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was dgged at the Q, a gay bar near the Rz, and was found ad five days later, his fay fai of both men disvered that money had been taken om their acunts after they died. The documents said the assailants appeared to be motivated by money and not bias, and that attacks took place at tablishments that tered to both gay and straight patrons.

Umberger led other New Yorkers to e forward wh stori of beg dgged and robbed at gay bars the cy. Several gay men who told The Tim they had been dgged said the police did not take their claims asked on Tuday if the police rponse had been fluenced by bias, Commissner Keechant L. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood.

NYC MAN SENTENCED FOR VLENT UNPROVOKED ANTI-GAY ATTACK AT BOGA

His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. What to KnowA man will spend years behd bars nnectn wh a vlent anti-gay attack agast two men at a Brooklyn boga 2021, prosecutors said.

4, 2021, si of a boga loted on Broadway Bhwick, a 36-year-old man and a 29-year-old man, were wag for food when the Clemente and the -fendant allegedly ma homophobic slurs toward the victims before the vic attack happened. A man will spend years behd bars nnectn wh a vlent anti-gay attack agast two men at a Brooklyn boga 2021, prosecutors said. 4, 2021, si of a boga loted on Broadway Bhwick, a 36-year-old man and a 29-year-old man, were wag for food when the Clemente and the -fendant allegedly ma homophobic slurs toward the victims.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

Clemente and an unapprehend man allegedly then chased the 29-year-old man, before grabbg him and punchg him the face and body, and then stabbg him while makg homophobic slurs.

NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’

“This vic attack on two nocent victims was an tolerable act of anti-gay vlence, and today’s sentence sends a strong msage that we will vigoroly prosecute anyone who ms a hate crime, " Gonzalez said a statement. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr.

Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars. Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years.

Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020. Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed.