UNC Chapel Hill freshman from Asheville says he was attacked in anti-gay hate crime

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From the Daily Tar Heel:

Quinn Matney was having trouble sleeping.

As the freshman took a walk on South Campus at about 3 a.m. on April 4, he said he ran into an acquaintance on the Craige Residence Hall footbridge. As the two spoke, a man sitting at a nearby picnic table stood up and grabbed him by the wrist, he said.

“Here’s a taste of hell you f—-ing fag,” Matney remembered the man saying.

The man branded Matney, who is gay, on the left wrist with an unidentified object, causing third- and fourth-degree burns that damaged three nerves and a tendon, leaving the freshman with no feeling in his thumb and limited mobility in his index finger, he said.

 

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Media Watcher April 13, 2011 - 1:17 am

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Tuesday evening that an earlier report of an alleged anti-gay hate crime on his campus was a false report.

Freshman Quinn Matney had told police he was attacked by a man on the university’s South Campus during the early morning hours of April 4. He said the man had branded him with an unidentified object and used an anti-gay slur.

“The Department of Public Safety has determined that the alleged aggravated assault reported to campus last night did not occur,” UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp said in a statement. “That report, filed with campus police on April 5, was false. The University will not report it as a hate crime.”

bobert April 12, 2011 - 6:06 pm

hate groups are growing in numbers in this area.This could be a harbinger of things to come.Everyone should take steps to protect themselves,walk in groups and be aware of your surroundings. Its time to be afraid people.

Media Watcher April 12, 2011 - 3:10 pm

Should a local reporter follow-up with a story in either the Citizen-Times or MountainX, whoever gets there firstist with the mostest?

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