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20 » augnai 17. 2001 ; ni i H a J news . egon Camera where he retrieved a gun and said, “Now what you got to say?” before shooting Houston in the chest. Police are searching for Davidson and have yet to officially call it a hate crime, saying the investigation is “still very much open.” Although the victim is reportedly not gay, Ten nessee hate crimes law covers vio lence based on real or perceived sex ual orientation. Everything Photographic We have a knowledgeable, JT\ vjf J friendly staff helping you find the right camera, binoculars, or photographic accessories. 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Park Rangers who allegedly referred to a “I am relieved and pleased that more group of Canadian friends as “faggots” while appropriate charges are being brought and they were beaten. Joey Abbruzzese, 20; Derick that my son’s murder case is being taken more Anbradi, 21; and Gregory Maleszyk, 19, were seriously by the district attorney’s office,” leaving a bar on the night of July 12 in the Mitchell said. “I hope that this takes us a step city’s famous River Walk. closer to justice for the death of my son.” Abbruzzese stumbled on the way out and In lieu of the preliminary hearing, origi was caught by Maleszyk, making the hetero nally scheduled for Aug. 13, Judge Christo sexual friends appear gay to the officers, pher Leroi will hold a meeting with attorneys according to the Texas Triangle, a gay newspa from both sides. A new date for the prelimi per in San Antonio. The article reports the nary hearing will be set at that time. Rangers then put the men through a traumat Memorial vigils for the 16-year-old were ic episode of extreme physical and verbal held Aug. 10 and 11 in Denver and Cortez. abuse, using anti-gay slurs during repeated Among the participants was Judy Shepard, beatings. mother of slain Wyoming University student “When the cop saw the Ontario license, Matthew Shepard. he looked to the other three offi cers present and said he had ‘two Canadian faggots,’ ” Abbruzzese told the Triangle. “The officer then asked, ‘What are you fags doing in our city?’ ” Abbruzzese and Maleszyk were taken to Bexar County Jail, where they claim they were not read their rights under the Miranda rule. The next day, the two men were charged with resisting arrest and were given no reason why they were arrested in the first place. Under the Miranda rule, law enforcement officials must warn people taken into custody that they have the right to remain silent and are entitled to legal counsel. This run-in did not surprise local activists who long have main tained that the Rangers target gay men for harassment. After 500 arrests and the city’s acknowledg ment of an active undercover pro Pauline Mitchell speaks during a vigil Aug. 11 in Cortez, gram aimed at homosexuals, the Colo., with Carolyn Wagner, national vice president of Gay and Lesbian Community Cen Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ter of San Antonio issued a travel warning in “Nearly three years ago, the intense media December 1999. attention focused on my son’s death was a wake-up call for all of us: It brought the epi TE N N E S S E E demic of hate violence out of obscurity and n a crime apparently caused in large part by into the public debate,” she said. “I see Fred’s anti-gay bias, Willie Houston was fatally death, combined with a recent escalation of shot in Nashville after the alleged gunman, hate violence across the country, as a clear 25-year-old Lewis Maynard Davidson III, sign that there is much more to be done taunted him with epithets. The 38-year-old before we can live free from fear and hate." just had finished a midnight riverboat cruise with his fiancée, Nedra Jones, and friends NEVADA when the trouble started. erry Lee Stamper-Ousley, 24, was found beat Houston escorted a blind man by the arm en to death June 30 inside his Las Vegas into a restroom while holding Jones’ purse. apartment complex. Inside the restroom, the gunman allegedly Police have made no arrests, hut the vic hurled anti-gay iasults at the friends. tim had gone to a gay bar earlier that evening. Davidson followed them out of the Investigators think robbery might be the restroom while continuing his verbal harass motive hut have not ruled out a possible hate ment. He then allegedly returned to his car, crime. 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