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Transgender, Gay Murders May be Bias Crimes, Says N.J. Prosecutor
Newark, NJ (CBS / AFP) Police in New Jersey are investigating whether the killing of two men because of their sexual orientation.
Announced Acting Prosecutor Robert Laurino Essex County on Thursday arrested a suspect in March. Arthur Downey, killing 15.
Laurino also named two suspects in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old transgender woman White Victoria Carmen on September 12.
The newspaper said Laurino Newark Star-Ledger that the suspects in the attacks learned from the victims of sexual orientations.
John Staten held in $ 1 million bail, charged in fatal beating Downey, a 27-year) of the maple.
Is Laurino did not disclose the sexual orientation of Downey, but the prosecutor said Downey met with Staten in a telephone chat service that contains the “gay part.”
“It is our understanding that he was openly gay,” said Catherine Carter, a spokeswoman for Essex County Acting Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino C. “We have a special unit in cases that seem to determine whether there was a legal basis for bias crime charges, and this unity within our office will review each of these cases.”
Police are searching for Foster, Marquez, 25, and 23 years) in the rooms Alrashim killed White.
Model professional clothes changed its name to Carmen Victoria after undergoing a sex change nine years ago.
CNN reports that police said in a written statement that the two suspects met White at a nightclub in Irvington. Then came back with White and two others to the apartment “to continue partying,” according to the statement. This is when “an altercation occurred and killed White.”
On Wednesday, he asked gay and lesbian alliance against defamation of supporters wearing purple to bring attention to the deaths of six teenagers who committed suicide after being ridiculed because they were gay.