Global News, a division of the Canadian Global Television Network. "When I finally came to again, I was begging for my life." The men were holding his dog during the attack, he said.Daum claimed the attack is a hate crime; the men, he said, knew he was gay because they had seen him at a local grocery store with his ex-boyfriend and hurled antigay slurs in their attack.“They were calling me a faggot, a pedophile because my then-boyfriend, he's younger, but he looks way younger [than he is],” said Daum.A nearby camper called the police.
Cpl. James Grandy, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, later confirmed the assault to Global News. “However, on that day, there was insufficient evidence to arrest any particular person, which.