Three extra individuals had been arrested and charged with hate crimes in a focused assault on a person who was allegedly kicked, spit on and referred to as derogatory names due to his sexual orientation, police in Maryland mentioned.
Sean Antone, 19, Benjamin Brandenburg, 18, and Logan Clark, 19, had been taken into custody a bit of over per week after the Salisbury Police Division introduced the arrests of 12 Salisbury College college students within the Oct. 15 assault.
Antone was arrested by the Howard County Police Division on Nov. 7, authorities mentioned in a information launch. Brandenburg was arrested by Salisbury police on Wednesday, and Clark turned himself in to Salisbury police on Thursday. Their prices mirror these obtained by the others together with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment, and hate crime offenses.
Attorneys for Antone and Brandenburg couldn’t be reached for touch upon Saturday. Legal professional info for Clark was not listed. The college didn’t affirm if the three are college students on the faculty.
Police mentioned they had been contacted by college police on Oct. 31 about an alleged assault at an off-campus condo complicated for college-aged college students. Detectives met with witnesses and noticed cellphone footage that allegedly confirmed “an grownup male sufferer being assaulted by a number of college-aged males,” police mentioned in a Nov. 7 information launch.
Detectives met with the sufferer and discovered that on Oct. 15 a gaggle of males used a social media account to ask the sufferer to a residence “beneath false pretenses,” the discharge said. When the sufferer entered the residence, “quite a few college-aged males surrounded the sufferer and compelled him to take a seat in a chair remoted in the course of the lounge,” in accordance with police.
The sufferer was “forcefully seated,” he was allegedly “kicked, punched and spit on whereas the lads referred to as the sufferer derogatory names,” police mentioned. The sufferer advised detectives that he tried to go away a number of instances however the group threw him to the ground.
Police mentioned the assault lasted for a number of minutes earlier than he was allowed to go away. The sufferer mentioned he sought medical consideration and had bruises in addition to a damaged rib.
Investigators mentioned the person was focused as a consequence of his sexual preferences.
A number of of these charged are members or associates of the college’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In a Nov. 7 letter, Salisbury College President Carolyn Ringer Lepre referred to as the incident “an act of visceral hate” and mentioned the fraternity was positioned on suspension.
Legal professional Steve Rakow is representing Riley Brister, one of many 12 college students initially arrested. Rakow mentioned the 20-year-old will plead not responsible to the fees. The opposite college students within the preliminary arrest are Ryder Baker, 20; Bennan Aird, 18; Cruz Cespedes, 19; Dylan Earp, 20; Elijah Johnson, 19; Zachary Leinemann, 18; Cameron Man, 18; Jacob Howard, 19; Eric Sinclair, 21; Patrick Gutierrez, 19; and Dylan Pietuszka, 20.Â
They had been all suspended, Lepre mentioned.
Rakow accused the college of leaping to conclusions “by suspending these younger males earlier than there was any findings associated to this incident.”
A group vigil and unity stroll was held Monday on campus.Â
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