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data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Brooke Sopelsa</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Police have released the gome tails the Christmas-week slayg of hairstylist Kev Ban, whose body was found on Dec. 28 at the Michigan home of spect Mark Latunski. Latunski was <a href=">charged wh murr and mutilatn last week</a> nnectn wh Ban’s ath.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_small__5hUB_ styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img src=" alt="Kev Ban of Swartz Creek, Mich." height="754" width="574"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Kev Ban of Swartz Creek, Mich.</span><span class="ptn__source">WEYI</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Ban, 25, was last seen on Christmas Eve, when he told his roommate he was leavg to meet a man he had nnected wh on Grdr, the popular gay datg app. Later that night, the roommate received a text om Ban sayg he was havg fun and might not make home that night. When Ban did not appear at his parents’ hoe on Christmas Day, he was reported missg.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Court documents shared wh NBC News on Monday revealed what police disvered when they arrived at Latunski's home Morrice, Michigan, 23 om Ban’s home outsi the cy of Flt.</p><p class="">Upon their arrival, Michigan State Police were granted permissn by Latunski to enter and search his home, acrdg to police ttimony. Durg the search, they found Ban “hangg ceased and naked om the ceilg.” After the grisly disvery, they placed Latunski to ctody, and durg an terview, Latunski “admted to the murr of Mr. Ban.”</p><p class=""><em><strong>Download the <a href=" target="_blank">NBC News app</a> for breakg news and polics</strong></em></p><p class="">“Mr. Latunski stated he ed a knife, stabbed him the back one time, then sl his throat,” acrdg to the ttimony of Detective Sergeant Jam Moore. “Afterwards, Mr. Latunski stated he wrapped rope around the ankl of Mr. Ban, and hung him om the rafters on the ceilg.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Moore also ttified that Latunski admted to mutilatg and nsumg part of Ban’s body.</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_small__5hUB_ styl_portra__NRWbO"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1240px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source media="(m-width: 758px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Image: Mark Latunski." height="987" width="747"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Mark Latunski.</span><span class="ptn__source">Shiawassee County Jail</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Latunski, 50, is not a stranger to thori. Acrdg to <a href=" target="_blank">lol NBC affiliate WILX</a>, police rpond to a bizarre cint at his home jt a month before Ban’s murr.</p><p class="">On Nov. 25, police reportedly went to Latunski’s home when a 29-year-old man wearg only a leather kilt was seen nng om the hoe wh Latunski chasg him, acrdg to WILX. A neighbor reportedly said the partially nu man had blood on his face and was screamg for help. The man, however, cled to prs charg, and a police vtigatn termed no crime had been mted.</p><p class="">Latunski was also charged wh kidnapg 2013 for allegedly takg two of his four children om his ex-wife. Those charg were dismissed after several petency heargs, acrdg to WILX.</p><p class="">Latunski, who is beg held whout bond, is expected to appear urt on Jan. 8.</p><p class="endmark"><em>F<strong>ollow <a href=" target="_blank">NBC Out</a> on <a href=">Twter</a>, <a href=">Facebook</a> & <a href=">Instagram</a></strong> </em></p></div><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Brooke Sopelsa</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Brooke Sopelsa is the edorial director of NBC Out, NBC News' LGBTQ digal statn. </p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div></div></div></div><span></span><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Closed Captng</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo

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‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: KEV BAN MCL THROUGH GAY CONVERSN SLASHER

EXCLUSIVE:  Kev Ban is jog John Logan's untled horror project at Blumhoe and will also serve as an executive producer alongsi executive producer Stt Turner Schofield. The movie is a LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay nversn mp and stars Theo Germae. * is kevin bacon gay *

As , all of the fantasi you had after seeg Ban go gay the seri fale of Will & Grace have fally e te! I haven't as yet had a gay relatnship-- not sce school anyway -- but I never say never.

I know lots of people who've been straight and turned gay; I know lots of people who've been gay and turned straight. On December 24th, 2019, Swartz Creek, Michigan — a suburb about 20 mut southwt of Flt — Kev Ban, a 25-year-old hairdrser, head out to meet a guy he met on Grdr, the datg and hookup app for predomantly gay, bisexual, and transgenr men.

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HE HAS CRANKED OUT ENDLS FLICKS SCE, AND, 2013, TRANSNED TO FULL-TIME TELEVISN STAR WH THE EERIE CRIME SERI THE FOLLOWG. BAN IS MARRIED TO ACTRS KYRA SEDGWICK. HE'S ALSO THE SPIRATN BEHD THE POPULAR POP CULTURE GAME SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN.EARLY LIFEBAN WAS BORN KEV NORWOOD BAN ON JULY 8, 1958, PHILALPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA TO URBAN PLANNER/ARCHECT EDMUND BAN AND TEACHER AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST RUTH HILDA HOLM. HE IS THE YOUNGT OF SIX CHILDREN. HAVG THE LL TO ACTG AT A YOUNG AGE, BAN ATTEND THE PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS, THE MANNG STREET ACTOR'S THEATRE PHILALPHIA AND THE CIRCLE THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL NEW YORK CY'S GREENWICH VILLAGE.MOVI AND TV SHOWS'ANIMAL HOE,' 'FOOTLOOSE'BAN BTED TO MOVI AS AN ROTC T AND ATERNY PLEDGE THE 1978 EDY NATNAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOE. HE WENT ON TO ROL THE HORROR CLASSIC FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) AND DER (1982), ALONG WH THE SOAP OPERA GUIDG LIGHT AND THE STAGE PRODUCTNS OF 40 DCE — WHICH TED HIM AN OBIE AWARD — AND BROADWAY'S THE SLAB BOYS. THEN ME A PART WH WHICH THE ACTOR WOULD FOREVER BE ASSOCIATED: AS REBELL CY TEEN REN MCCORMACK, WHO WAG WAR AGAST A SMALL TOWN FOR BANNG ROCK MIC AND DANCG, 1984'S FOOTLOOSE. BAN WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS CHARACTER'S OVER-THE-TOP DANCE SCEN.'A FEW GOOD MEN, 'THE RIVER WILD,' 'APOLLO 13'AFTER FOOTLOOSE ME A STRG OF MEDCRE MOVI FOR BAN, CLUDG QUICKSILVER (1986) AND SHE'S HAVG A BABY (1988). HE ENJOYED MORE SUCCS WH THE HORROR FILMS TREMORS AND FLATLERS 1990, BEFORE PLAYG A GAY HTLER OLIVER STONE'S JFK THE FOLLOWG YEAR. SUDNLY, THE ACTOR FOUND HIMSELF A SLEW OF MEMORABLE MOVI, -STARRG WH WHAT SEEMED LIKE EVERYONE HOLLYWOOD: A FEW GOOD MEN (1992), WH {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}JACK NICHOLSON AND TOM CISE; A GOLN GLOBE-NOMATED ROLE THE RIVER WILD (1994), WH MERYL STREEP; APOLLO 13 (1995), WH TOM HANKS; AND SLEEPERS (1996), WH SEAN PENN, TIM ROBBS AND ROBERT DE NIRO.'WILD THGS,' 'MYSTIC RIVER,' 'THE WOODSMAN'FOLLOWG THE SEXUALLY TGED NEO-NOIR WILD THGS (1998), BAN RETURNED TO HORROR FARE BY HEADLG STIR OF ECHO (1999) AND HOLLOW MAN (2000). HE DISPLAYED HIS PENCHANT FOR PLAYG DARK, TROUBLED CHARACTERS THE CRILLY ACCLAIMED MYSTIC RIVER (2003) AND THE WOODSMAN (2004), THE LATTER ALSO FEATURG HIS WIFE, SEDGWICK. BAN THEN RETEAMED WH HIS OTHER HALF AS DIRECTOR OF LOVER BOY (2005) AND WENT ON TO A PROMENT SUPPORTG ROLE FROST/NIXON (2008).'TAKG CHANCE,' 'X-MEN: FIRST CLASS'THE ACTOR EARNED STRONG REVIEWS FOR PORTRAYG A U.S. MARE WHO RETURNS THE REMAS OF A FALLEN SOLDIER THE 2009 DRAMA TAKG CHANCE, RULTG A SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD AND THE FIRST GOLN GLOBE W OF HIS REER. HE ALSO IMPRSED AS THE VILLAO SEBASTIAN SHAW X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2011), AND FOLLOWED WH THE LARGELY WELL-RECEIVED ROMANTIC EDY CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (2011), THOUGH A RETURN TO IC BOOK-SPIRED MAYHEM R.I.P.D. (2013) FELL FLAT.'THE FOLLOWG,' 'BLACK MASS'THE YEAR 2013 ALSO SAW BAN EMBARK ON HIS FIRST SMALL SCREEN STARRG ROLE WH THE FOLLOWG. HE PLAYED RYAN HARDY, A FORMER FBI AGENT TRYG TO REPTURE A SOCPATH WH A CULT OF GROUPI, DURG THE THREE-SEASON N OF THE CRIME DRAMA. BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN, THE ACTOR NTUED WH THE THEME OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BLACK MASS (2015), ABOUT THE CRIMAL ACTIVI OF MOB BOSS JAM "WHEY" BULGER, AND PATRTS DAY (2016), ABOUT THE 2013 BOSTON MARATHON BOMBGS.'I LOVE DICK,' 'CY ON A HILL'BAN'S NEXT TV ROLE WAS PLAYG AN ARTIST-WBOY WHO BE THE MUTUAL FATUATN FOR A HBAND AND WIFE THE OFFBEAT EDY I LOVE DICK. HE SRED THE THIRD GOLN GLOBE NOMATN OF HIS REER, THOUGH THE SHOW FAILED TO GET PICKED UP FOR A SEND SEASON. UNTERRED, BAN RETURNED TO SCRIPTED TV THE FOLLOWG YEAR SHOWTIME'S CY ON A HILL, AS A VETERAN FBI AGENT FORCED TO ACMODATE AN AMB NEW BOSTON DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THE ACTOR THEN MA HIS FIRST BIG SCREEN APPEARANCE FOUR YEARS ALONGSI AMANDA SEYIED THE HNTED HOE HORROR FLICK YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (2020).MARRIAGE TO KYRA SEDGWICKBAN AND SEDGWICK MET WHILE DOG AMERIN PLAYHOE'S PRODUCTN OF LEMON SKY 1987, AND MARRIED THE FOLLOWG YEAR. BAN EVEN DIRECTED SEDGWICK ON OCSN, CLUDG SEVERAL EPISOS OF HER SERI THE CLOSER. THIS LONG-STANDG CELEBRY UPLE HAS RAISED TWO KIDS TOGETHER – TRAVIS (B. 1989) AND SOSIE (B. 1992) – AND OVERE MAJOR CHALLENG, CLUDG LOSG A SIGNIFINT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BERNIE MADOFF'S PONZI SCHEME.SIX DEGRE OF KEV BANIN THE MID-1990S, FOLLOWG THE SUCCS OF THE STAGE PLAY SIX DEGRE OF SEPARATN, A GROUP OF LLEGE IENDS TRODUCED THE SIX DEGRE OF KEV BAN BOOK AND PARLOR GAME, WHICH TASKS PARTICIPANTS WH LKG THE ACTOR TO OTHER HOLLYWOOD STARS THE FEWT NNECTNS. ALTHOUGH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN "HORRIFIED" BY THE IA AT FIRST, BAN EVENTUALLY BEME A FAN OF THE GAME. IN 2007, HE BEGAN AN ONLE NONPROF VENTURE PALIZG ON THE NAME, .THE BAN BROTHERS BANDWHEN NOT ACTG OR SPENDG TIME WH HIS FAY, THIS CELEB MAK FOLK-ROCK MIC WH HIS BROTHER MICHAEL BAN, AN EMMY AWARD-WNG POSER. THEIR BAND, THE BAN BROTHERS, RELEASED THEIR EIGHTH ALBUM 2018. THIS OUTLET FS BAN'S NOVATIVE SI WAYS ACTG DON'T. "I DON'T CREATE THE MOVI I'M ," HE TOLD 2012. "WHEN TO MIC, 'S MY CLOTH, 'S MY GUAR, 'S MY VOICE, 'S MY SONG."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

He was planng a move to Chigo to be closer to iends, and part of a more diverse gay muny. Among other thgs, he said, the datg scene for gay men was basilly non-existent. When Ban vised Nguyen Chigo, the two partied the cy’s gay district, Boys Town, and Ban vowed to move to the cy.

He suggted that had his client not been a gay man, the suatn would have been treated differently.

Is bee ’s jt gay guys dog stuff a basement? Blumhoe’s new slasher “They/Them” (the slash is pronounced) turns the very real horror of gay nversn therapy to a bloody nightmare. He enjoyed more succs wh the horror films Tremors and Flatlers 1990, before playg a gay htler Oliver Stone's JFK the followg year.

KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’

" A masked maniac is stalkg the habants of a gay nversn therapy mp They/Them (out Augt 5), the directorial but om Gladiator and The Aviator screenwrer John Logan. Ban also prais director John Logan and the "brilliant" ia of rporatg relevant social mentary to ntemporary horror fare: "He told me he wrote this bee he was horrified by the ia that gay nversn is still somethg that's gog on this untry.

Ban met Latunski on Christmas Eve 2019 after the two allegedly nnected on Grdr, a datg app for gay men. The news outlet scrib Ban's latt project as "a LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay nversn mp. After the credible mercial succs of Jordan Peele's Get Out 2018, studs realized the potential goldme settg a horror/thriller flick wh the niche of an dividual's experience wh systematic jtic like racism or homophobia.

But Twter ers have pecially taken issue wh the way Ban and Logan's upg project clar self to be an "empowerment tale" while beg set a lotn as historilly harrowg as a gay nversn mp. One fan wrote, "do we rly need this, every time there's a big time gay film s always somethg horrible happeng to why do a queer empowerment film have to be set at a nversn mp".

KEV BAN NS A VERY CREEPY GAY NVERSN THERAPY MP TRAILER FOR HORROR FILM THEY/THEM

While another tweeted, "We want gay horror movi but not like this". WEYIBan, 25, was last seen on Christmas Eve, when he told his roommate he was leavg to meet a man he had nnected wh on Grdr, the popular gay datg app.

The movie is a LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale set at a gay nversn mp and stars Theo Germae.

But They/Them is a new type of horror movie, set at a gay nversatn mp.

KEV BAN DRAGGED FOR UPG HORROR MOVIE ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Ban also said he appreciat the attentn he got om the gay muny for 'Wild Thgs'. In openly gay wrer-director John Logan’s film, vulnerable queer recs, led by non-bary actor Theo Germae’s Jordan, arrive both optimistic and skeptil to Whistler, unr the imprsn they’re seekg ultimate happs. In the slasher world, the tradn was to take thgs that society had emed morally wrong such as dg e, premaral sexualy, homosexualy, goofs, race, oby, anythg, and kill those people.

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