News [1]: Young gay man killed in Florida [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Mar 17, 2007 - 08:01 PM
GeneralNews [3]
(Bartow, USA) - Two men have been arrested in the killing of a central Florida man police say may have been stabbed because he was gay. Twenty-five-year-old Ryan Keith Skipper of Wahneta was found dead along a rural roadway early Wednesday morning. William David Brown Junior (20) and Joseph Bearden (21) were arrested as suspects. Police say they have a witness reporting Skipper was killed because he was gay. According to the Sheriff's Office, the arrested men stole the car and computer of the victim, and then drove him to a road where he was stabbed more than 20 times.

Note: Update: Read more on Orlando Sentinel [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=6&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=772&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=1&lead=1
  [4] http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/southwest/orl-bk-hatecrime031707,0,6587158.story?coll=orl-home-headlines