Three Lowell teenagers are scheduled to be arraigned this morning , charged in an alleged gay-bashing in which a man was taunted and beaten, according to Lowell police and the Middlesex district attorney's office.

The alleged assailants saw the man in a residential neighborhood at about 3 a.m. on Friday, and used anti gay slurs before beating him, authorities said.

"We don't want you in our neighborhood," one of the accused allegedly called out to the man.

The three men, Jonathan Artis , Jeffrey Buchanan, and Jules Rugges , all age 19, face three charges: violation of constitutional rights with bodily injury, assault and battery, and mayhem.

Three 19-year-old men in Lowell, Massachusetts were released without bail but given a nightly curfew after pleading innocent to attacking a gay man early Saturday morning.

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The attackers are apparently free on their own recognizance until a probable cause hearing on July 27.