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- HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN
- AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER
HATE CRIME CHARG ADD GOME GRDR ATTACK ON GAY TEEN
Hate crime charg have been add a grisly asslt last summer that left a gay Louisiana teen a a for three Whe of Lafayette was jt 18 when he met 19-year-old Chance Sene on the gay datg app Grdr.
After munitg for a month, the two young men cid to meet person late, a sophomore at Louisiana State Universy, Eunice, said he ved Sene over to his new apartment, but Sene nvced him to e to his father's hoe to play vio some awkward nversatn, Whe said his next memory is of beg pulled backward by a rd and beg choked so severely that “all the blood vsels my face ptured” before he passed Whe the hospal shortly after his attack. Dpe the police’s ial misgivgs, Whe is adamant he was targeted bee he is a gay man.
AN INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUNT SAYS CLASSMAT ASSLTED HIM FOR BEG GAY AND SENT A VIO OF THE ATTACK TO HIS MOTHER
“He went on an app signated for gay people. He chose to choose someone who is gay and very proud of his sexualy. “We always have homophobia southern Louisiana, so if that was a part of , I wouldn’t be surprised, ” he said.