Twelve students at Salisbury University in Maryland are facing assault and hate crime charges after they allegedly targeted a man “due to his sexual preferences” and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him, police said.
The students, all men ranging in age from 18 to 21, were charged with first degree assault, false imprisonment, reckless endangerment and associated hate crimes in connection with the October 15 incident, the Salisbury Police Department said in a news release Thursday.
Police say a man was invited “under false pretenses” to an apartment in Salisbury, where a group of men immediately surrounded him upon entry, forced him into a chair in the living room and then proceeded to kick, punch and spit on him while calling him derogatory names, police said.
One of the men met the victim on the LGBTQ dating app Grindr, pretended to be 16 years old and set a date to meet up “for the purposes of having sexual intercourse,” according to a charging documents obtained by CNN affiliate WJZ. The legal age of consent in Maryland is 16 years old.
According to the charging document, police reviewed videos of the incident – recorded without the victim’s consent – from one of the defendants’ phones.
Police allege that when the victim entered the apartment and shut the door, one of the students yelled “YEE YEE” and approximately 15 college-aged men appeared from the bedrooms and assaulted him while using a homophobic slur, among other derogatory terms, to refer to him.
Salisbury U in the news again. I took asked why was the victim going to a place to meet a 16 yr old? Seems that emphasis was briefly mentioned.
Yet still no justice for Gavin. Have all the people, car, timing….
There was no 16 year old…that was made up to lure the man to the location so that he THOUGHT he was going to hook up with a child…then they beat him up etc.
There has been no Justice for Gavin as Gavin was drunk and ran into the side of the car. You were told a fake narrative so you would donate money to the foundation which the mom stole from and used it as her personal account.
This is the first I have heard this story, It would be interesting to hear this version of happenings. Whether that is true or not, his mother was really scraping the bottom of the barrel to take money from the foundation. That was low!
Don’t cut those scumbags any slack! SU sure has a lot of no good thugs! I guess the school won’t pose any punishment for them. Daddy sends them to the biggest party college there is to get them out of his hair and then we have to tolerate them
You are right. SU is Party City. Don’t know how they learn anything. I don’t think they do.
Yet obtain degrees for paying to learn nada
I totally agree.
We were leaving an Oriole game in the late 1970’s, and my friend was wearing an SSC jacket. Some guy yelled out – “Hey buddy, are you on the wrestling team?” IYKYK! LOL
I remember the SSC 300
Strange choice of activities for a fraternity initiation. Is this the frat with the bedsheets and pointy hats?
I doubt they’re Democrats. The guy was going there to meet a minor for sex or so he thought
The so called victim thought he was going there to have sex with a minor, anybody that thinks that’s okay is a sick POS
I think all of my viewers would think it is sick. HOWEVER, I also believe the mass majority of my viewers believe 12 sick individuals believe they could take the law into their own hands and beat the crap out of someone. They acted like their own KKK and deserve a strict sentence.
Yes