“My latt: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalkg gay bars NYC. At least 2 men were dgged, robbed g their phone’s facial regnn tech, and killed. More survived siar attacks, most recently on Nov 12. I spoke to 6 survivors.

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• ROBBERI AFFECTG NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE ILLUMATED BY GRIEVG MOM: 'THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG'
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• 2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT 2 AD
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS
• FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED
• GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

ROBBERI AFFECTG NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE ILLUMATED BY GRIEVG MOM: 'THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG'

Sign up today for our ee To TopNightlifeGay Men In NYC Are Beg Targeted By A Serial Murrer Or Hate GroupA sre is spreadg through the gay muny New York Cy as more attacks are beg disvered. “My latt: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalkg gay bars NYC.

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

\u201cMy latt: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalkg gay bars NYC. “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 and John Umberger, 33. \u201cGay 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 and John Umberger, 33.

“Reporters @OfficialJValle and @mattlaviet at @NBCNews have been reportg on gay men NYC beg dgged and some s killed sce May. \u201cReporters @OfficialJValle and @mattlaviet at @NBCNews have been reportg on gay men NYC beg dgged and some s killed sce May. A grievg mother’s fight to fd answers about the ath of her son has helped to shed light on a spected rash of dgggs and robberi affectg New York Cy’s gay nightlife Clary’s 33-year-old son, John Umberger, was found ad June after he was last seen walkg out of a midtown Manhattan bar wh two strangers.

They ma me feel like was my flt, like I did to myself, ” Alarn April, jt outsi the same gay bar that Alarn went to, 25-year-old Jul Ramirez was seen gettg to a b wh three unknown men.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

Dpe her ial ncerns, Clary add that she’s thankful for the New York Police homici tective who’s now workg the York Cy police cled ment to ABC News, cg that they’re alg wh an ongog have said ’s not jt gay men who are gettg targeted and that they know this is happeng both straight and gay nightclubs across the months of worry across New York, they say they’ve now arrted six men who are facg grand larceny, inty theft, asslt and other charg.

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.

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

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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.

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.

MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT 2 AD

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.

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED

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.

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

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 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.

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

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. 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. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. Although the patterns first gaed public attentn followg the two aths nnected to Hells Kchen gay bars, the patterns volve a mix of both straight and gay bars, and of both heterosexual and LGBTQ READ | Fentanyl poisong: 3 fatal dos same night----------* Get Eyewns News Delivered * More Manhattan news* Send a news tip* Download the abc7NY app for breakg news alerts * Follow on YouTube Subm a tip or story ia to Eyewns News Have a breakg news tip or an ia for a story we should ver?

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.

John Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photo.