WESH that security footage showed that after a verbal exchange between the two, the attacker walked over to the 16-year-old victim and “proceeded to climb onto the victim and punch him multiple times.”The victim reportedly told the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office that the attacker used homophobic slurs during the attack and claimed that the victim “snitched to the staff” about homophobic name-calling.
The sheriff’s office also claimed, in a press release, that the attacker was charged with “violating his probation from a previous arrest for battery.”The victim suffered multiple injuries during the attack, including a black eye “that was swollen partially shut,” bruising to his face, and a possible arm injury.
The current status of that arm injury is unknown, but the victim’s father did take him to the hospital for treatment.According to the sheriff’s office, the anti-gay attack was not the only bias-motivated crime to have happened within its jurisdiction.
In the past year, there have been at least two cases “that involved enhanced charges due to evidence of prejudice.” The first one occurred back in June 2021 when a 21-year-old man yelled racial slurs and pointed a gun at a family in DeLand, Florida.
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