Indictments are hand up nnectn wh NYC gay bar killgs, sourc say

Contents:

• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• SEVERAL FACE CHARG KILLGS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED AND ROBBED
• NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L
• POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• ‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS
• 2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS

MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

A send spect was arrted and charged wh murr nnectn wh a strg of dg-facilated robberi of men who vised gay bars New York Cy that clud two aths, two senr law enforcement officials told NBC News on Monday.

Umberger and Jul Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, were both found ad after visg gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg. ” Multiple dgs were found their systems, cludg fentanyl, lidoe and Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThe two law enforcement officials said that police obtaed secury vio showg Dema and Jayqwan Haton — one of three spects police have named nnectn to the homicis of Umberger and Ramirez — enterg and leavg Umberger's temporary rince Manhattan's Upper East Si.

NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October 2022. The New York Cy Police Department prevly nfirmed to NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars. It is unclear, however, if they were found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.

In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them. Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed. “Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green.

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

Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green.

’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then.

In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer. Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock.

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. Back that benighted era, gay bars were often “the one refuge om the perils of everyday life”, said Green.

At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se. As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.

While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay.

SEVERAL FACE CHARG KILLGS OF GAY MEN WHO WERE DGGED AND ROBBED

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. 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.

NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L

”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.

Moon for The New York TimThree men were charged on Monday, two of them wh murr, a seri of fatal dgggs at Manhattan gay bars that killed two people and have spread fear through the cy’s L. Prosecutors believe the crim were rried out by what they lled “a crew” of attackers who preyed on people Hell’s Kchen, a gay nightlife district Midtown Manhattan, slippg dgs to unspectg bar patrons and then leadg them to a send lotn, sometim their own hom, to rob Police Department said at least one spect, Jayqwan Haton, remaed at large on Monday. C., was killed after he left the Q, a gay club near the Rz.

POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS

Ramirez appear to have been motivated by money and not anti-gay bias, and that a wave of siar crim has stck both gay and straight bars across the the crim have had a sgular impact on the cy’s tight-kn L. Nightlife for years: the e of easily obtaable dgs, such as GHB, which is ed recreatnally small dos by some the gay muny, to pacate and rob Tim terviewed over a dozen men who said they were dgged at gay bars and then robbed and left man, Tyler Burt, who was attacked at an East Village bar December 2021 and awoke his apartment to fd more than $25, 000 of goods stolen om him, said his doctor suggted that he had been given Stack is a relign rrponnt on the Metro sk, verg New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: 3 Held Dggg Murrs And Robberi at Gay Bars.

The crim, which occurred Hell’s Kchen, spread fear New York’s Ramirez died of a dg overdose after leavg the Rz wh three men April Moon for The New York TimSeveral fendants face charg nnectn wh murrs and robberi at Manhattan bars that terrorized the cy’s gay muny, acrdg to three people wh knowledge of the homicis last sprg drew wi attentn to a danger that has long stalked New York's nightlife: the e of easily obtaable dgs to pacate, rob and sometim Umberger, 33, and Jul Ramirez, 25, were killed after they left bars Hell’s Kchen what the medil examer’s office led were murrs mted the urse of “dg-facilated theft. As public knowledge of the killgs grew, more victims me forward to say they too had been dgged at gay bars New York, and then robbed and left for police partment has said is vtigatg crim at both straight and gay bars, and that the victims have been a mix of heterosexual and L. They h bars that tered to straight and gay people, choosg some lotns bee of their attractive the crim had a sgular impact on the cy’s gay muny, which emerged om the panmic to face a monkeypox outbreak, enomic turmoil that threatened many bars that serve as facto muny centers, and an creasgly hostile natnal polil aths of Mr.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

Ramirez spread fear and mors among many who equent those bars and muny spac, and also started a larger nversatn about siar attacks at gay nightlife killgs of Mr.

It is easily obtaable New York and ed recreatnally small dos by some gay year, the police arrted several men nnectn wh a seri of siar robberi at Manhattan bars that ter to a primarily heterosexual clientele. Court documents dited one of those men was also acced of stealg $2, 000 om a patron of the same gay bar at which Mr.

‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Indictments Issued Deaths of Men Dgged at Manhattan Gay Bars and Robbed.

Two gay men who end up ad wh their bank acunts draed after leavg New York Cy bars last year were both homici victims, thori said men died separate cints.

Invtigators wanted to know more about the aths of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger and if they were among “several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt, " police said at the Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThe aths of both men have been led homicis ed by a "dg-facilated theft, " the Office of Chief Medil Examer said Friday.

2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS

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. Umberger’s ath was ed by "acute toxitn by the bed effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, e, lidoe and ethanol, " the medil examer members of the two men uld not immediately be reached for ment the months followg the aths, more gay New Yorkers me forward wh acunts that had siari. The NYPD also nfirmed addnal acunts of grand larceni at other New York Cy gay bars that rembled Ramirez's and Umberger's s.

Police named three spects late Friday nnectn to the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year. Umberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.