Police in New York City announced Saturday that an eighth suspect had been arrested in an antigay gang attack on three men. They are still seeking a ninth suspect, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The attacks reportedly took place October 3, when members of the gang Latin King Goonies became enraged upon learning that a 17-year-old recruit was gay. Police say the recruit was stripped, beaten, and sodomized with a wooden plunger handle in an empty Bronx apartment. Gang members then allegedly attacked a second gay teenager. The third attack was reportedly on a 30-year-old man who was lured into the apartment and sodomized with a baseball bat.
"When you hear the details of what occurred, torture really is the only word that comes to mind," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday.
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