[lavender] Homeless Deaf Gay Man Beaten to Death in Ohio

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: "Deaf Queer Resource Center"
<lists at deafqueer.org>
Subject: Deaf Queer News -- FLASH Issue #798

[1]  Deaf Gay Man Beaten, Body Dumped in Trash Bin


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[1] THREE ACCUSED WITH MURDER OF OPENLY DEAF GAY MAN
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The Deaf Queer Resource Center was distressed to learn
of the
murder of openly Deaf Gay Daniel "Dano" Fetty of
Waverly, Ohio.
Fetty, who was 39 years old, was found severely beaten
and naked
in a trash bin on October 2.  He died about 12 hours
later at Grant
Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Three men have been accused with his murder.  They are
Martin E.
Baxter, 28, and Matthew W. Ferman, 22, and James V.
Trent, 19. All
hearing.

Investigators believe that the murder was a hate
crime.

Unlike the murder of Matthew Sheppard, Fetty's murder
has drawn very
little media attention.  In most media accounts, Fetty
has been
described simply as a "gay homeless man".  Does the
fact that he
was homeless make him any less important???

According to friends of Fetty, he had been living in
his car due
to an apartment fire that left him homeless.  He had
been saving
for a new place at the time of his murder.

Additional news coverage and articles will be
available at the Deaf
Queer Resource Center's website at:

http://www.deafqueer.org/people/fetty/index.html




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