NYC Gay Bar Robberi: New Info on Deadly Dgggs of John Umberger and Jul Ramirezose Deaths: John Umberger – NBC New York

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• NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY
• MAN ARRTED ON MURR CHARG GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME
• DEATHS OF 2 MEN THAT WERE DGGED, ASSLTED AT GAY NIGHTCLUBS LED AS HOMICIS
• NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• 2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE
• INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY
• GAY BAR SU COMEDIENNE WHO SAID BARTENR DGGED HER
• MAN ARRTED NNECTN WH ATHS OF MEN DGGED AFTER LEAVG GAY BARS
• INDICTMENTS ARE HAND UP NNECTN WH NYC GAY BAR KILLGS, SOURC SAY
• MAN CHARGED DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS; 2 SPECTS STILL AT LARGE
• FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• DEATHS OF 2 MEN FOUND DGGED AFTER LEAVG NEW YORK CY GAY BARS ARE LED HOMICIS
• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• 3RD SPECT ARRTED NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, MURRS

NYPD VTIGAT ANOTHER VICTIM NNECTN TO GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME, POLICE SOURC SAY

The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg another dg-duced robbery nnectn wh a crimal scheme — largely targetg men visg gay bars — that has left at least two men ad, police sourc say. Michael, a 30-year-old gay man, is the most recent of at least 16 victims. On March 25, Michael said, he was dgged and robbed of roughly $5, 000 after visg The Eagle NYC, a gay bar Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where at least three siar cints had been prevly reported.

”Authori have prevly stated that, although most of the victims the scheme are gay men, they were targeted for fancial ga and not bee of their sexual orientatn.

A spect was arrted nnectn wh the homicis of at least one of the two men who were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, a New York Police Department spokperson said Barroso, 30, was charged wh murr, robbery, grand larceny and nspiracy nnectn wh the ath of Jul Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, and a separate cint which an unintified victim did not die, police vtigators said. Ramirez and John Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg. John Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoBoth had left the bars wh at least one unknown person before their bank acunts were draed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs on their phon, acrdg to their fay members.

MAN ARRTED ON MURR CHARG GAY BAR DGGG SCHEME

However, they add that the New York Cy Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is assistg the the months followg Umberger’s and Ramirez’s aths, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward wh acunts eerily siar to what police said happened to Ramirez and Umberger. NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October NYPD prevly nfirmed to NBC News that there were 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 to the dicted spects.

The New York Cy Office of the Chief Medil Examer led Friday on the aths of two men who died after they were dgged and beaten at gay nightclubs Hell's 2022 aths of John Umberger and Jul Ramirez were led homicis after they were given dgs tated wh fentanyl, acrdg to police. It brought public attentn to several patterns of dgggs and robberi, some volvg members of the gay muny, that rulted as many as seven overdose medil examer’s termatn the aths were homicis now allows tectiv and prosecutors to beg pursug charg agast the spects who are unr vtigatn other, siar, aths. C., were found ad separate cints after leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen 2022, both had thoands of dollars stolen om their acuntsThey died of a toxic dg batn, their topsi found; July, an acclaimed fashn signer was found ad her Manhattan apartment of another toxic nartic bo -- those three aths may be lked to two separate ongog overdose robbery patterns, law enforcement officials saySix spects have been dicted the first pattern; law enforcement officials say that crew is thought to be behd 17 robberi and the aths of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger; the send is thought to be rponsible for 26, cludg the ath of Kathryn Gallagher.

DEATHS OF 2 MEN THAT WERE DGGED, ASSLTED AT GAY NIGHTCLUBS LED AS HOMICIS

As the third and fal spect was arraigned Tuday nnectn wh the overdose aths of two Manhattan gay bar patrons police said were dgged and robbed, there is more rmatn g out about the scheme rried out by three men.

The mayor joed Manhattan District Attorney Alv Bragg and NYPD Commissner Keechant Sewell to announce the end of the year-long vtigatn to the overdose aths of two gay men who were victims of the scheme: 25-year-old social worker Jul Ramirez and 33-year-old polil nsultant John Umberger. Both Umberger and Ramirez were seen leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen shortly before they disappeared, wh people they did not know. Police say the two aths are part of a larger strg of siar cints, si and outsi the gay muny.

NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS

When asked if the NYPD may have ignored the overdose aths at first bee the victims were gay men, law enforcement officials tegorilly nied the claim. C., both of whom were robbed and killed after leavg Hell's Kchen gay bars, were termed by the medil examer to be homicis.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED 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. 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.

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

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.

2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE

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.

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

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.

It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December. ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L. Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife.

People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia.

GAY BAR SU COMEDIENNE WHO SAID BARTENR DGGED HER

Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. The aths of Jul Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33, are beg vtigated by the NYPD's homici un after both were allegedly dgged at popular gay bars and later found ad wh thoands of dollars whdrawn om their acunts, The New York Tim reported Saturday, while others have claimed to have survived siar experienc. Sce Ramirez and Umberger's ath, New York Cy Council member Erik Bottcher and volunteers have passed out flyers Hell's Kchen, notifyg gay men of the spected dgggs and warng them to be "extra vigilant.

The aths e amid mountg homophobic stigma around Monkeypox, "groomer" rhetoric sparked by "Don't Say Gay" bills and the recent adly shootg at LGBTQ tablishment Club Q Colorado Sprgs, Colo., which killed five people and jured 18 others. 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 officials said the spects were dicted the aths of John Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, and Jul Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker. (Lda Clary / Fay photo)Umberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

MAN ARRTED NNECTN WH ATHS OF MEN DGGED AFTER LEAVG GAY BARS

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. The Abbey—a gay bar the Wt Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angel, California—has filed a lawsu agast Haely Whe, a edienne who publicly acced s bartenr of dggg her Augt 3, Whe said via social media that said she was "severely dgged by a bartenr" durg her July 29 vis to The Abbey.

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

The Abbey, a gay bar Wt Hollywood, Los Angel, California has filed a lawsu agast Haely Whe, a edienne who had acced an Abbey bartenr of dggg her drk.

Roughly five weeks apart, both men were dgged, robbed and then died after leavg gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. 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.

MAN CHARGED DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS; 2 SPECTS STILL AT LARGE

One of the three men wanted nnectn to the overdose aths of two men who vised Manhattan gay bars last year has been arrted. The third and fal spect has been arrted nnectn wh the overdose aths of two Manhattan gay bar patrons police say were dgged and robbed. A third and fal spect was arrted nnectn wh the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, two senr law enforcement officials said Monday.

FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

Umberger and Ramirez were found ad after they vised gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last year. The men would e the physil rds and rmatn stored on the victims’ phon to transfer money to themselv and make purchas, the dictment News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to last York Cy police prevly nfirmed that multiple groups of crimals are mtg such crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars. It is unclear, however, whether they were found ad after havg vised gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton.

The aths of two men who were found robbed and dgged after leavg gay bars New York Cy's Hell's Kchen last year have been led as homicis, the Office of the Chief Medil Examer reported Friday. Both men died after beg seen leavg popular Hell's Kchen gay bars wh strangers, CBS New York reported. There is not a doubt md that's what happened, " Carlos Ramirez, Jul's brother, told CBS New York last weeks later, Umberger was last seen leavg the Q, a popular nightclub for gay men Hell's Kchen, wh two men, his mother told CBS New York an terview last November.

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.

DEATHS OF 2 MEN FOUND DGGED AFTER LEAVG NEW YORK CY GAY BARS ARE LED HOMICIS

” 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. The s were weeks apart and eerily siar: Two young men at popular New York Cy gay bars.

Both of their bank acunts were they may not be the only gay New Yorkers are g forward for the first time wh acunts that share notable siari to the unexplaed aths this sprg of Jul Ramirez, 25, a social worker, and John Umberger, 33, a polil biggt difference so far: They News spoke to two people who scribed harrowg experienc that seem to broadly f the pattern of what happened to Ramirez and Umberger.

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

Meanwhile, the gay muny the untry’s largt LGBTQ cy awas Person, 55, says he was robbed siar circumstanc 2018 and, bed wh the recent reports, the experience has left him shaken. I don’t thk gay men would ever spect that this uld be done to them.

GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

”No memori and emptied bank acuntsIn December, Burt — who reached out to NBC News on social media after recent reports regardg the two aths — was walkg home om a night out wh iends when he stopped at The Boiler Room, a popular gay bar Manhattan’s East Village, for one last drk by himself.

Lda Clary is prsg the NYPD to further vtigate the ath of her son, John ClaryRoughly a month later, Umberger was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell’s Kchen gay bar, The Q.

NEW YORK CITY - The NYPD has arrted a third spect wanted nnectn to the aths of two men found dgged after leavg gay bars Hell’s Kchen.

3RD SPECT ARRTED NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, MURRS

Related verage MORE: Gay men targeted dggg and robbery attacks, 2 aths possibly lked MORE: Victims dgged, robbed durg strg of cints at Manhattan gay bars MORE: Arrts ma adly NYC gay bar dgggs, 1 spect still at large Two other alleged acplic, Jab Barroso, 30, and Robert Dema, 34, were arraigned earlier this month on siar charg. A month later, the 33-year-old Umberger was fatally dgged and robbed after leavg another gay club, jt a few blocks away om The Rz.