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‘Deadly Conspiracy’ Described at Trial of 3 Charged in Gay Bar Murders
The two men went to Midtown gay bars and nightclubs in 2022, just as New York City’s nightlife was booming again after the pandemic. They became victims — fatally drugged and robbed by men “waiting in the wings to target them,” prosecutors said Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court. In the opening statements of a murder trial, prosecutors described a “deadly conspiracy” to befriend men leaving gay bars and clubs, slip them intoxicants and steal from them.