Suspected attackers after gay pride parade surrender

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 5:05 pm, Tuesday, April 10, 2018

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida police say four men involved in an attack after a gay rights event have surrendered.

Miami Beach police announced on Twitter on Tuesday that the men, who weren't immediately named, turned themselves in less than a day after their images were released to the public.

The police report says the group had been walking along Ocean Drive, a busy tourist area, Sunday evening when they ran into two men holding hands in a park. One of the victims told police a man from the group called them an anti-gay slur in Spanish and then three of the four men attacked. Police say a good Samaritan tried to intervene and was also attacked.

The suspects were gone by the time officers arrived.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Police-search-for-attackers-following-gay-pride-12822367.php

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By M.L. NESTEL
Apr 10, 2018, 3:36 PM ET

Florida police are looking for four men who allegedly hurled racial epithets at two gay men before beating them and a good Samaritan outside a public restroom during the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade.

The incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday as the alleged victims exited the public park restroom, police said, adding that the incident was captured on surveillance video and witnessed by several people.

Rene Chalarka, 32, and Dimitry Lugunov, 31, told police they were embracing while they waited to use the restroom at the palm tree-lined Lummus Park when a man called out to them with an offensive word in Spanish for homosexuals, according to a Miami Beach Police Department report.

"We were outside the bathroom and they hit him [Lugunov]," Chalarka, who was visibly injured, told ABC Miami affiliate WPLG-TV.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-sought-alleged-anti-gay-attack-miami-beach/story?id=54362743