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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.
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he Victim Advocate’s Office con
Gregory Maleszyk claims San Antonio Park Rangers
tacted Pauline Mitchell, mother
scraped his face against the concrete July 12
of slain Navajo gay Two-Spirit youth
Fred C. Martinez Jr., to inform her
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Aug. 10 that a continuance has been granted
he FBI has begun a probe into serious to the attorney defending alleged perpetrator
allegations of unlawful harassment and Shaun Murphy. In addition, the charges against
physical abuse committed by San Antonio him will be upgraded to first-degree murder.
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
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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
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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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