May 23, 2007Quickie Link: Two Men Charged with Assault, Kidnap
By vanrozenheim
(Missoula, USA) - Two men are charged with aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping in an attack on a man who said his two assailants uttered anti-gay epithets while severely beating him earlier this month. Michael D. Lemay and Christopher L. Newrider, both 20, remain jailed on $100,000 bail. Court records said Lemay and Newrider met the 50-year-old victim, Stevenpaul Richey, at a downtown bar, and went to Richey’s apartment. Richey said once in the apartment, one of the men said that he “didn’t like faggots,” and that he was attacked from behind. A friend discovered Richey kneeling on his living room floor with both hands tied behind his back, having been badly beaten. He was hospitalized with facial fractures, broken ribs and a punctured lung. Staff at St. Patrick Hospital told police that Richey could have died if he hadn’t been found so quickly.
