Police investigate attack on Texas couple as hate crime

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Investigators are checking surveillance video in the downtown area to identify a group of men they say beat Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry early Saturday after the couple left a nightclub.

Deehring says the two were holding hands when a passing man made a derogatory comment.

The two responded and Deehring says as many as five men then attacked them.

He says he sustained a concussion and lacerations and that Perry suffered internal bleeding, a concussion and a broken nose.

Police say no suspects have yet been identified.

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/P...-on-Texas-couple-as-hate-crime-504755742.html

 

[Satanica]

Start packing heat. That should even things up if this happens again.

 

[Sejanus]

Every gay person and minority in Texas needs to arm themselves and start taking ears.

 

[JackBurton]

Was curious what race they were cuz i assumed Tristan was a chick. Pretty gay name for a dude.

Texans are fucking slime. Scum, toxic culture there, overwhelmingly.

 

[Brillig]

i assumed Tristan was a chick. Pretty gay name for a dude.

Tristan is a male name. He was a knight of the round table in Arthurian legend.

 

[JackBurton]

Tristan is a male name. He was a knight of the round table in Arthurian legend.

The gayest knight.

 

[staysblazed_xo]

Perry and Deerhing told police that a man passed them and yelled a homophobic slur, KXAN reported. When they asked what he said, the man allegedly yelled more slurs and motioned to others to join him, according to KXAN.

Four men then beat Perry and Deerhing, with a witness telling police the suspects called the couple derogatory names and homophobic slurs as they lay on the ground. Both were hospitalized for their injuries.

One of the suspects is alleged to have threatened a witness who called 911, according the KXAN.

Police have arrested Frank Macias, Quinn O'Connor, Miguel Macias and Kolby Monell in connection with the attack, KXAN reported. The men are each facing two counts of second-degree felony aggravated assault and are being held on collective $300,000 bonds, KXAN said.

4 men charged in beating of gay couple leaving a bar in Austin

 

[staysblazed_xo]

"The Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force caught Frank Macias, 23, at a residence in Corrigan after he failed to appear for a court date on hate crime charges from a 2019 incident in downtown Austin.

The Austin Police Department, along with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, asked the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force to help find him after he made “threatening comments on social media about law enforcement and the Office of the District Attorney and was considered dangerous.”

The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force then called upon its East Texas counterparts to make the apprehension.

Macias was charged with two counts of felony aggravated assault after allegedly confessing to police that he and three others beat up a gay couple as they left a bar downtown in January 2019. The bond violation for Macias missing his court date was issued Sept. 1, authorities say."

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