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 known as derogatory names due to his sexual orientation, police in Maryland stated.
Sean Antone, 19, Benjamin Brandenburg, 18, and Logan Clark, 19, had been taken into custody a little bit over every week after the Salisbury Police Department introduced the arrests of 12 Salisbury University college students within the Oct. 15 assault.
Antone was arrested by the Howard County Police Department on Nov. 7, authorities stated in a information launch. Brandenburg was arrested by Salisbury police on Wednesday, and Clark turned himself in to Salisbury police on Thursday. Their expenses mirror these obtained by the others together with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment, and hate crime offenses.
An lawyer for Antone declined to touch upon the case. An lawyer for Brandenburg couldn’t be reached for touch upon Saturday. Attorney data for Clark was not listed.
A college spokesperson stated all three are Salisbury college students, and all have been positioned on interim suspension, the “harshest penalty the University is ready to implement at this stage of the method.”
Police stated they had been contacted by college police on Oct. 31 about an alleged assault at an off-campus house 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 stated 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 “below 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 midst of the lounge,” in keeping with police.
The sufferer was “forcefully seated,” he was allegedly “kicked, punched and spit on whereas the lads known as the sufferer derogatory names,” police stated. The sufferer advised detectives that he tried to go away a number of occasions however the group threw him to the ground.
Police stated the assault lasted for a number of minutes earlier than he was allowed to go away. The sufferer stated he sought medical consideration and had bruises in addition to a damaged rib.
Investigators stated the person was focused on account of his sexual preferences.
Several of these charged are members or associates of the varsity’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. In a Nov. 7 letter, Salisbury University President Carolyn Ringer Lepre known as the incident “an act of visceral hate” and stated the fraternity was positioned on suspension.
It’s unclear whether or not Antone, Brandenburg or Clark are members of the fraternity.
Attorney Steve Rakow is representing Riley Brister, one of many 12 college students initially arrested. Rakow stated the 20-year-old will plead not responsible to the costs. The different 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 Guy, 18; Jacob Howard, 19; Eric Sinclair, 21; Patrick Gutierrez, 19; and Dylan Pietuszka, 20.
They had been all suspended, Lepre stated.
Rakow accused the varsity of leaping to conclusions “by suspending these younger males earlier than there was any findings associated to this incident.”
A neighborhood vigil and unity stroll was held Monday on campus.