Ex-Marine arrested in alleged hate crime in attack outside California gay bar
By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer
NBC News
A former Marine has been arrested in the beating of two men outside a popular gay bar in Southern California last year and will face hate-crime charges for using anti-gay slurs during the attack, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.
John Kelly O'Leary, 21, was arrested Monday by police in Evergreen Park, Ill., Deputy District Attorney Gretchen Ford of the hate crimes unit said in a statement. O'Leary was discharged from the Marines on Oct. 19, about six weeks after the attack, Marine Corps’ spokesman Master Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva told NBC News. He will be extradited from Illinois to California to face the charges.
O'Leary and a group of friends, including other Marines, went to the Silver Fox bar in Long Beach, Calif. in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 2012. O'Leary was accused of shouting anti-gay slurs outside the bar at closing time, which triggered the hate crime charge, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
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4 Suspects arrested for assault, could face hate crime charges
Four Marines arrested for assaulting man at Long Beach gay bar
Suspects arrested for assault, could face hate crime charges
By Tracy Manzer
Staff Writer
Posted: 09/04/2012
LONG BEACH — Long Beach Police Department detectives are investigating a possible hate crime attack involving four Marine Corps members who attacked a man outside a popular local gay bar, authorities confirmed Tuesday.
Police were called to the Silver Fox, located on Redondo Avenue near Fourth Street on the edge of Belmont Heights, at about 2 a.m. Monday, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
"Based on the preliminary investigation, it was determined that an assault had occurred to a man by several male suspects after they had left the establishment," Pratt said Tuesday.
During the assault, Pratt said, two other people who came to the aid of the victim were also attacked. Only one of the victims was taken to the hospital with what police described as "non-life-threatening injuries."
Silver Fox Manager John Barnes told the Press-Telegram on Monday that the four men came into the bar late Sunday or early Monday and the primary culprit, who seemed visibly uncomfortable while at the bar, called Barnes "sweetheart."
"You could tell by the tone of his voice that he was uncomfortable, he was making a demeaning remark," Barnes said.
The attack occurred as the bar was closing, with the primary suspect punching a young gay man who was much smaller, Barnes said.
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Suspects arrested for assault, could face hate crime charges
By Tracy Manzer
Staff Writer
Posted: 09/04/2012
LONG BEACH — Long Beach Police Department detectives are investigating a possible hate crime attack involving four Marine Corps members who attacked a man outside a popular local gay bar, authorities confirmed Tuesday.
Police were called to the Silver Fox, located on Redondo Avenue near Fourth Street on the edge of Belmont Heights, at about 2 a.m. Monday, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
"Based on the preliminary investigation, it was determined that an assault had occurred to a man by several male suspects after they had left the establishment," Pratt said Tuesday.
During the assault, Pratt said, two other people who came to the aid of the victim were also attacked. Only one of the victims was taken to the hospital with what police described as "non-life-threatening injuries."
Silver Fox Manager John Barnes told the Press-Telegram on Monday that the four men came into the bar late Sunday or early Monday and the primary culprit, who seemed visibly uncomfortable while at the bar, called Barnes "sweetheart."
"You could tell by the tone of his voice that he was uncomfortable, he was making a demeaning remark," Barnes said.
The attack occurred as the bar was closing, with the primary suspect punching a young gay man who was much smaller, Barnes said.
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