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  • Gay man stabbed to death in Washington DC

    Gay man stabbed to death in Washington DC

    A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by a man he knew.

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    A retail executive, Vongell Lugo, 36, has been killed after being stabbed to death in his apartment in Washington DC, USA allegedly by a man that was known to him and may have been an “intimate partner”. Police responded to an emergency call at 4.15 AM on Sunday 6th January 2019.

    This is the second report of a domestic violence-related death in the USA in the last month.

    A twenty-six-year-old man, Collin J. Potter, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with Lugo’s death. NBC News says that he was found by the police, “standing over a man who had been stabbed to death”.

    The Anti-Violence Project in New York reports that he was “stabbed to death in his home by his partner, U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Collin J. Potter”.

    Lugo was reportedly stabbed more than 40 times to his neck, upper chest and abdomen, according to the New York Post.

    According to the AVP, Lugo was a successful retail exec, who was described as a “kind soul, the centre of the party, and a beacon of light that made an impact on everyone he came into contact with”.

    Lugo immigrated to the USA in 1994 and went to the University of Maryland, completing a BA in Sociology in 2010.

  • Chris Brown arrested

    Chris Brown allegedly punches and hurls a gay slur at man in Washington DC.

    The singer Chris Brown has been arrested, after a man was punched in the face in an attacked that the victim is calling ‘homophobic’.

    Entertainment website TMZ reports that both Brown and a bodyguard were arrested and charged with assault.

    The alleged incident happened outside the W hotel in Washington DC as Brown was having his picture taken with two women, when two men tried to get in on the act.

    The victim reports that Brown said:

    ‘I’m not into this gay sh*t, I’m into boxing,’

    Brown then apparently punched the man in the face who was taken to hospital for his injuries that included a broken nose, which he may need surgery for.

    TMZ reports that the alleged victim didn’t understand why Brown was ‘so homophobic’. The unnamed man has already hired a lawyer.

    The singer’s team has denied the allegations, suggesting that the man was trying to board Brown’s bus and that the singer was trying to stop him.

    In a ‘worst case scenario’ TMZ reports that because Brown is still on probation for beating Rhianna in 2009, this latest incident could see him behind bars for up to 4 years for ‘violating his probation’