Yoga Instructor Hospitalized After Gay Couple Attacked

[FrodosPet]

Source: NBC Washington

Couple ambushed early Sunday morning after night out
By Pat Collins | Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 | Updated 11:35 AM EDT

A hate crime investigation is under way in D.C. after a gay couple’s night out ended in a brutal beating.

Michael Hall Jr. has a broken jaw and a fractured cheekbone following the attack Sunday morning. The 29-year-old yoga instructor was operated on at Howard University Hospital Monday.

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Michael Hall Jr. and his boyfriend, Michael Roike, were heading home from a restaurant just after midnight Sunday when they were ambushed by about five teenagers in the Eckington section of northeast D.C.

“Four or five kids just came out of nowhere without any warning,” Roike said. “We didn’t think it was a robbery because they didn’t immediately ask for something. They just came out swinging and hitting.”

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Read more: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Yoga-Instructor-Hospitalized-After-Gay-Couple-Attacked-163475546.html

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I hope Mr Hall and his family and loved ones find peace and rapid healing. And may the evil little thugs find tolerance and repentance after a very long jail stay.

[trumad]

1. I think hate crimes should have the same type of sentences as Attempted Murder.

[rosesaylavee]

2. Yes! +1000

[xchrom]

3. ...

[BlueJazz]

4. People there need to put out a reward for the capture of these monsters. They would be caught ...

....within hours. Teenagers LOVE to brag and 2 or 3 grand would Loosen the
tongue of one of their "Pals".

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. He works here at HUD and we are taking up a collection for him. He and his partner have NO

health insurance!!!!

[FrodosPet]

7. Blessings to you and your co-workers

Hopefully his needs will be minor, with any leftovers used to educate people and fight violence.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. We're taking up a huge collection to help pay for his medical bills.

Hopefully that's a start. The hate must stop!!

[roguevalley]

6. put the kids in prison. I'm tired of age being a point of enabling. God bless these two men.

[sarcasmo]

8. Exactly, the kids know what they are doing and when brutal crimes like this occur age should be

left out.