New York Cy gay muny on high alert after strg of alleged dgggs, robberi and at least two aths | Fox News

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• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON
• INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY
• BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR VANDAL ATTACKED NYC HOTSPOT FD ABOUT A WOMAN; NO HATE CRIME CHARGE, SAY PS
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• VIO SHOWS MAN THROW BRICK AT WDOW OF NYC GAY BAR; 4TH ATTACK AT SAME SPOT A WEEK
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• NEW YORK CY GAY BAR ATTACKED FOR FOURTH TIME A MONTH: ‘WE N NOT STAND FOR THIS’
• SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED

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 . Three men who vised a New York Cy gay bar were robbed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs on their phon, the New York Police Department nfirmed on three men, who were their late 30s and 40s, vised a Chelsea gay leather bar, The Eagle NYC, on separate nights October and November and were each robbed of $1, 000 to $5, 000, acrdg to the NYPD’s puty missner of public rmatn.

PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON

”The police spokperson said the cints at The Eagle NYC and Hotel Chantelle are not related to any other pattern of robberi happeng the recent robberi bear a remblance to the s, reported by NBC News November, of Jul Ramirez, 25, a social worker, and John Umberger, 33, a polil nsultant, who were targeted siar fashn and suffered unexplaed the separate evengs of their aths, Ramirez and Umberger were seen leavg New York Cy gay bars wh groups of men before their bank acunts were draed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs to their phon, acrdg to their fay members.

INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY

A Manhattan grand jury has dicted several spects nnectn wh the aths of two men who were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, two law enforcement officials said Wednday.

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

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office cled to ment, as did an NYPD spokman, cg the ongog Umberger and Jul Clary; Fay photoUmberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

It is unclear, however, if they were of gay men found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected to the dicted spects. ”In the months followg the aths of Ramirez and Umberger, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward wh eerily siar acunts.

NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October 2022, both before and after the aths of Ramirez and NYPD nfirmed mid-November that was vtigatg addnal acunts of grand larceny at other Manhattan gay bars that had siari to the Umberger and Ramirez s.

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

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.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

“A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s wt si has been attacked repeatedly recent weeks. ”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. 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.

HELL’S KCHEN GAY BAR VANDAL ATTACKED NYC HOTSPOT FD ABOUT A WOMAN; NO HATE CRIME CHARGE, SAY PS

"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. "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.

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

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.

VIO SHOWS MAN THROW BRICK AT WDOW OF NYC GAY BAR; 4TH ATTACK AT SAME SPOT A WEEK

’" 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.

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

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.

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

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. REUTERS/Kev Mohatt/File PhotoNEW YORK, Nov 23 (Rters) - After the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub Florida, the owners of New York Cy gay bar C'mon Everybody hired more secury staff, and the LGBT landmark Stonewall Inn ran active-shooter safety drills wh s bars and other LGBT spac around the untry are aga weighg how to keep their staff and patrons safe after a gunman killed five people and jured 17 more at an LGBT club Colorado Sprgs.

SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED

Many worry that physil secury measur n only go so far, and that stnchg a surge of flammatory anti-LGBT rhetoric is a better Club Q attack, which is beg vtigated as a hate crime, has pound the fear and anger of a muny already nontg a wave of Republin legislatn directed at transgenr youth and gay Amerins, and what they say is a related rise threats and vlence agast s members.

"It's really tirg for the gay muny that time and time aga we have to e up wh the solutns for problems that other people make, " said Jonathan Hat, executive director of Drag Queen Story Hour, a nonprof group that aniz drag performers readg books to children 45 stat that has been repeatedly targeted and threatened this year.

"Jt hours before the attack at Club Q Colorado Sprgs, someone threw a brick through the wdow of gay bar Vers the Hell's Kchen neighborhood of New York Cy for the fourth time this month, acrdg to police. Erik Bottcher, the cy uncil member reprentg Hell's Kchen, has joed other officials over the last week to warn that one or more people are dggg and robbg gay men the rponse to those attacks and the Colorado shootg, the Anti-Vlence Project, a non-prof group found 1980 after a spate of attacks on gay men, plans to hold a safety event at a Hell's Kchen gay bar on Wednday night. Volunteers will talk wh staff and patrons about ways to heighten vigilance bars, on hook-up and datg apps, and wh partners at attack on the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando six years ago, durg which a man shot ad 49 people, forced many bars to review their secury plans.