Victim of Boston Stabbing Says Attack was Anti-Gay Hate Crime
A 25-year-old openly gay man in Boston says that the three people who jumped him and left him with serious stab wounds to the neck and abdomen targeted him out of anti-LGBTQ hate.
Anthony Crumbley was attacked by two men and a woman in South Boston at about 10:45 pm on Dec. 18, reports local news channel WNX.
The report said that Crumbley';s injuries were "life threatening": and that after stabbing him the attackers left him lying on the ground "to bleed out."
"The two males and a female approached me and two males attacked me and stabbed me in my neck and in my stomach, and pretty much ran and left me there," Crumbley told WBZ.
"I believe it was an attack that had to do with gay hate because, you know, I dress very femme and I'm a very outspoken person," Crumbley added.
Crumbley was in a coma for several days, suffering from wounds to his intestines, UniversalHub.com reported. He is also suffering from damage to his spinal nerves from the neck wound.
That nerve damage will mean extensive physical therapy, Crumbley said on a GoFundMe page that's been set up to help him and his 12-year-old sister, to whom he is a legal guardian following the death of their mother last year.
"This traumatizing situation has left me hopeless," Crumbley wrote, describing his injuries and the challenges that lie ahead. "I just don't know how im going to make ends meet now with this gained disability from my attackers, im now left with a unfunctional left arm due to the severed nerves in my C6 section of my shoulder."
Crumbley went on to add, "I have to take therapy and im very traumatized by this situation so working wont be an option for me atm until i can fully recover so even thought this hurts me and is so embarrassing to say I'm asking for Help".
The victim noted that so far police do not have any suspects in custody. "None has been arrested for doing this to me & I'm scared truthfully knowing they are still out here on the streets and could do this to me again at anytime," he wrote.
Boston police said "they have no reason yet to believe this was a hate crime," WBZ reported.