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LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, October 03, 2008
D.C.
police
announced
Monday
that
they
arrested
a
teenage
male
suspect
in
connection
with
a
July
13
incident
in
Adams
Morgan
in
which
five
male
attackers
assaulted
three
gay
men
while
shouting
anti-gay
names.
Police
listed
the
incident
as
a
hate
crime.
In
a
statement
released
8:30
p.m.
Monday,
police
said
the
identity
of
the
suspect
and
information
related
to
his
prosecution
was
being
withheld
because
he
is
a
juvenile.
The
statement
says
police
arrested
the
suspect
on
Sept.
25
and
charged
him
with
aggravated
assault.
One
of
the
gay
victims
in
the
attack,
Todd
Metrokin,
triggered
coverage
of
the
incident
in
the
mainstream
media
in
September
when
he
agreed
to
allow
photos
of
his
bruised
and
badly
swollen
face
to
be
posted
online.
Metrokin
has
since
become
active
with
the
local
group
Gays
and
Lesbians
Opposed
to
Violence
(GLOV).
The
police
department’s
Gay
&
Lesbian
Liaison
Unit
reported
in
July
that
the
incident
began
when
the
unidentified
assailants
started
calling
the
three
gay
victims
anti-gay
names
inside
the
Pizza
Mart
carry-out
restaurant
on
the
2400
block
of
18th
Street
N.W.
in
Adams
Morgan
at
about
4
a.m.
on
July
13.
The
GLLU
reported
that
words
were
exchanged
between
the
gay
men
and
the
assailants
and
that
assailants
followed
the
gay
men
out
of
the
restaurant
and
attacked
them
on
the
1800
block
of
Kalorama
Road
at
about
4:20
a.m.
Two
of
the
three
victims
were
treated
and
released
from
a
local
hospital.
In
Monday’s
statement,
police
said
they
have
no
further
information
about
the
case,
including
whether
investigators
expect
to
make
additional
arrests
of
the
others
who
participated
in
the
attack.
GLOV
organizer
Chris
Farris,
an
attorney,
said
GLOV
plans
to
follow
the
prosecution
of
the
juvenile
suspect
arrested
in
the
case
and
will
look
into
the
city’s
juvenile
laws,
which
prohibit
the
release
of
any
information
about
criminal
prosecution
of
juveniles.
Under
existing
law,
authorities
cannot
disclose
whether
a
juvenile
arrested
in
a
crime
is
convicted
of
the
crime
and,
if
convicted,
what
sentence
he
or
she
receives
from
a
juvenile
court
judge.
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