Did police shoot up a gay bar in north carolina

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Select a location and bookmark it today. Originally published: Nov. Updated: Nov. A suspect in the crime is being held by police after an aggravated assault in the early morning hours of Nov. Police say the attack on the victim, whom the suspect met at a local gay bar, is not being considered a hate crime.

He had reportedly suffered burns over 52 percent of his body after the suspect, Garry Joseph Gupton, 26, of Greensboro, attacked White and set him on fire. Greensboro police say an employee at the Battleground Inn at Westover Terrace called after hearing a man screaming at the hotel at the same time a fire alarm was activated.

White was apparently found naked, robbed and beaten, in addition to his life-threatening injuries from the fire. A friend says White, who served in Iraq and was injured there, had a hand and part of his arm amputated after injuries sustained in the weekend attack. Gupton was arrested on the scene last weekend.

He had been charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill, but authorities have now charged him with first-degree murder. He is being held without bond.

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Sarah Ovaska at N. Policy Watch reported Thursday that Greensboro police told her the attack was not being investigated as a hate crime. Policy Watch. Gupton to act so violently. This is not a crime motivated by hate. Sources close to the victim tell qnotes the two met at Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar in the city at Spring Garden St.

Another local bar, Q Lounge, is also hosting a fundraiser on Saturday. Posters for both events are posted below. Advocates with the statewide LGBT advocacy group had been monitoring the crime. Sunday morning our friend and regular customer Steven left Chemistry by cab to a local hotel with Garry Gupton whom he met earlier that evening.

This brutal attack has left Steven hospitalized and fighting for his life.