12 Salisbury University students charged with hate crimes after they allegedly beat a man they lured to apartment

[Jim Burton]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/us/salis ... index.html

Twelve students at Salisbury University in Maryland are facing assault and hate crime charges after they allegedly targeted a man “due to his sexual preferences” and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him, police said.

The students, all men ranging in age from 18 to 21, were charged with first degree assault, false imprisonment, reckless endangerment and associated hate crimes in connection with the October 15 incident, the Salisbury Police Department said in a news release Thursday.

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One of the men met the victim on the LGBTQ dating app Grindr, pretended to be 16 years old and set a date to meet up “for the purposes of having sexual intercourse,” according to a charging documents obtained by CNN affiliate WJZ. The legal age of consent in Maryland is 16 years old.