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Tiny Warrior
Two Gloucester brothers were arrested yesterday in the beating of a man outside a Gloucester bar Saturday morning, an attack that family and friends are calling a hate crime.
Gloucester police charged Jonathan Chadwick, 23, and his brother William, 21, with aggravated assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in the beating of Justin Goodwin, 33, of Salem. He was beaten outside Old Timer's Tavern on Rogers Street at about 12:30 a.m.
Goodwin, who underwent nearly 10 hours of surgery Sunday for severe head trauma at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was first transported to Beverly Hospital following the beating, said Anna Vaters, a close friend who communicated with Goodwin in the hospital yesterday through written notes.
Goodwin suffered injuries to his jaw, nose, cheekbone, and eye sockets, family members said. He cannot see out of his right eye or hear out of his right ear. His jaw will be wired shut for about two months, family members said.
Shortly after arriving at the bar with his sister, Kalem, and her boyfriend, Goodwin was approached by a group of about five men yelling homosexual slurs, Vaters said. She said that Goodwin wrote out the details of the encounter for her.
Noticing the raucous incident, the bouncer escorted Goodwin, his sister, and her boyfriend out the back door into an alleyway and locked the door, Goodwin told Vaters.
Vaters said she asked Goodwin if he believed it was a "gay bashing," to which he replied in writing, "most definitely."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...rs_arrested_victim_calls_beating_gay_bashing/


