Happy to read an arrest has been made in that attack in SoHo on the cute couple who were married at West Point Military Academy.
The Daily News reports:
Cops arrested a 57-year-old man who shouted anti-gay slurs and attacked two men — who were the first gay couple married at West Point Military Academy — in a SoHo deli, police said Wednesday. Thomas Clabough was charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime after punching Daniel Lennox-Choate, 30, and shouting homophobic slurs at him and his husband, Larry Lennox-Choate, in a deli on Spring St. near Thompson St. on Aug. 2, cops said. Police say Clabough walked into the deli and started screaming homophobic slurs at the men. He then blindsided the victim, according to a post on Larry's Facebook account. The post said the man "screamed anti-gay obscenities at us in a bodega before sucker-punching Danny."That's when Larry took action. "He left covered in his own blood with his tail between his legs after I handled the situation and tossed him in the street like the coward loser he is," the Facebook post said about Clabough. Daniel, an Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran, suffered only minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene. Daniel graduated West Point in 2007 and Larry, in 2009. The two married at their alma mater in 2013. "We refuse to be victims and are thankful we can defend ourselves, but are saddened by the fact that idiots like this guy might not pick two guys who went through Plebe Boxing next time," Larry said on Facebook. Clabough was awaiting arraignment Wednesday morning.
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