Tag: killing

“We were just talking, and before we knew it, he was under the car.” A driver drove into at least four people leaving a gay bar in Houston Wednesday night, killing one person and injuring several others. The driver, 25-year-old Cordale Robinson, hopped up onto the sidewalk outside Bayou City Bar & Grill in Houston’s LGBT-friendly Montrose neighborhood. “It just appeared out of nowhere and he just came in and started hitting and running over people and dragging people and tearing...

An Oklahoma gay man has been sentenced to life behind bars without parole over a vile racist murder. Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, had been found guilty of first-degree murder, malicious intimidation and harassment earlier this month over the killing of his neighbour Khalid Jabara, 37. The killing took place in 2016, with Majors using his husband’s legally-bought gun to open fire on Mr Jabara as he left his Tulsa home to collect mail. Majors’ attorneys, who had sought an insanity plea, told...

The judge described the gesture as "unwise." A man convicted of killing a middle-aged gay couple in Florida showed his lack of remorse by flipping their loved ones the finger in open court. In November, Peter Avsenew was convicted of the 2010 murders of Kevin Mark Powell and Stephen Adams, a gay couple he had met on Craigslist. After getting invited into their home in LGBT-friendly Wilton Manors, Florida, the 32-year-old escort killed both men, then stole their cash, car and...

Giovanni Melton's former foster mom reveals troubled history A father allegedly shot his 14-year-old gay son, with police attributing the killing in part to the boy’s sexual orientation. Henderson police in Nevada say 53-year-old Wendell Melton shot and killed his son Giovanni in the morning of Thursday 2 November. Sonja Jones is Giovanni’s former foster mom and said Wendell always had a thing against his son’s sexuality. She told 3 News: ‘He hated the fact that his son was gay. ‘I’m sure that inside...

This past Monday, witnesses say they saw a man standing around the Bulldogs bar, a black gay bar in Atlanta, Georgia. A group of friends eventually interacted with this man, later identified as 47-year-old Elijah Payton, as he started to yell at them. An anonymous witness spoke to WSB-TV Atlanta about the situation, “He started yelling obscenities, such as ‘Hey, which one is with who? I wanna have sex with one of you guys,” the witness told them, “He then screamed...

'Completing another marathon will be a testament to the strength I have gained from him' Tom Herthington, 29, is one of the lucky few to star in the new series of The Great British Bake Off. He works as an architect and lives in Edinburgh with his boyfriend, David. Tom lost his identical brother Robert in 2013. He was serving in the army. 25-year-old Robert was killed in Afghanistan after a Taliban explosion hit his armored vehicle. The explosives were hidden in a tunnel under...

The Columbus police department have confirmed they are investigating the post. An employee from Columbus City School posted a message on Facebook, to the Columbus Pride organisers, reading: “I hope this event turns out like the Boston Marathon a few year’s back. All fag’s should be killed or at least relocated.” The post received condemnation from the school, and they posted this in response: A spokesperson from the school also confirmed that they were working towards the employee’s “termination.” Stonewall Columbus...

Kelly Schneider says he doesn't deserve forgiveness for killing Steven Nelson Kelly Schneider sat in an Idaho courtroom on Monday (10 April) with his head bowed and for more than an hour listened as the family of Steven Nelson spoke about the man Schneider killed. When they were through, a judge sentenced Schneider to 28 years to life in prison. It as nearly a year ago that Schneider used an online ad offering sex for payment to lure the gay man to...

Police have rounded up at least 100 gay men in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and have killed at least three of them, according to media reports. The NYT: On Saturday, a leading Russian opposition newspaper confirmed a story already circulating among human rights activists: The Chechen authorities were arresting and killing gay men. …The men were detained “in connection with their nontraditional sexual orientation, or suspicion of such,” the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, reported, citing Russian federal law enforcement officials, who...