KNSD-TV that he doesn’t remember much about the attack on the night of Sept. 12, but he and a couple of friends were at a pier near Cesar Chaves Park in Barrio Logan.“When we were leaving the event I fell behind my friends, Martin and Sunny,” Saavedra said.
His friends later told him that two men then approached him. “My friend said that these two guys asked me for a lighter.” Then the attack started.The friends said the men were yelling homophobic profanities during the beating.“By the time they like turned around, I was getting, you know, punched,” Saavedra said.