An elderly couple
was found dead in their Indianapolis home on Monday,
the result of a possible hate crime. Friends say that Milton
Lindgren, 70, and Eric Hendricks, 73, had been
targeted in recent months for being gay, with antigay
statements left on their front door and their phone and
cable lines cut, local station WRTV reports.
"I'm not a
genius, but if someone's being harassed like that and
'faggot' gets stamped on their door on a piece of paper,
it's not that hard to connect the dots two months
later that these two people are brutally killed in
their home," Lee Beard, a friend of the couple, told
the station. He added that Hendricks had been confined to a
wheelchair.
Police
investigators told WRTV the men died by "violent means"
but were unsure whether bias was a motivation. (The
Advocate)