Were the Newark Triple Murders an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?
This morning, two developing stories connected with the shootings of students at historically black Delaware State University. At the same time campus police search for a gunman who wounded two students overnight … New Jersey gay activists say the recent murders of three college students in a Newark schoolyard should be investigated as a possible anti-gay hate crime. Some background: In August, 20-year-old Dashon Harvey, 18-year-old Terrance Aeriel and 20-year-old Iofemi Hightower were shot execution-style during an apparent robbery attempt. Aeriel’s sister, Natasha Aeriel, was shot in the head but survived. Harvey and the Aeriel siblings were students at the black college and Hightower was enrolling for the fall semester. Newark gay activist James Credle contacted Mayor Cory Booker and the gay press because “at least one or more” of the victims were gay, he says, and “the city administration, the police and the media” have refused to release this information. Keith Boykin also asks
