Syracuse Man Was Killed for Being Gay

From Syracuse.com:

Dwight R. DeLee shot and killed Moses “Teish” Cannon with a .22-caliber rifle Friday night because he didn’t like that Cannon was openly gay, Syracuse police said.

Cannon, 22, and his brother, Mark Cannon, 18, both of 404 Arthur St., were shot as they sat in a car parked in front of 411 Seymour St., where they had been invited to a party. The bullet grazed the left arm of Mark Cannon, who was in the driver’s seat, and hit Moses Cannon in the chest, police said.

Police have charged DeLee, 20, of 420 Gifford St., with second-degree murder. DeLee went into the home at 411 Seymour St. to get the rifle after guests at the party started “making profane and vulgar comments in regards to the sexual preference of our two victims,” police Chief Gary Miguel said.

“There was no previous argument between these individuals, there was no previous fight, there was no bad blood,” Miguel said. “Our suspect took a rifle and shot and killed this person, also wounding his brother, for the sole reason he didn’t care for the sexual preference of our victim. Isn’t that sad? Isn’t that a sad situation that that’s the sole reason why?

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New York Man Sentenced in Gay Killing

John Love McGhee, a New York City man who fled to London after beating a gay man to death in 2001 has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison.

Richard Brown, the Queens District Attorney McGhee was sentenced Friday in Queens state Supreme Court. McGhee had been found guilty in September of second-degree murder.

Edgar Garzon of Queens, the 35-year-old victim had lay in a coma for almost three weeks after being beaten in, outside of a gay bar on August 15, 2001.

Garzon was a native of Colombia who worked as a theater set designer.

Edgar Garzon

Homeless Man Accused of Murdering Gay Pace Student

Just when some bloggers started pointing the finger at a homo hook-up gone wrong, the NYPD arrested a suspect in the murder of openly gay 19-year-old Pace University student Kevin Pravia.

Jeromie Cancel, 22, has confessed that he smothered Pravia, watched the horror film “Saw” in his apartment then robbed him.

As cops escorted him out of the precinct, Cancel smiled and said he killed Pravia “because I wanted to.” “You got a problem with that?” he asked reporters.

Cancel said that Pravia fell asleep, so he punched the student in the face, stuffed a bag in his mouth, wrapped the television cord around his neck and suffocated him, according to police. He said he took a laptop and cell phone that he sold on the street and iPod, and he claims he can’t remember where it is.

Read more at gaysocialites.com.

Double Gay Suicide Shocks Community

Two young gay men, Daniel Cudd, 23, and Roger Irons, 21, were found hanged in separate incidents in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Mr. Cudd was found at a house in Helton’s Bulwark Road at around 4am on 31st July. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

On 2nd August, less than 48 hours after Mr Cudd was found, Mr Irons was found hanged from a tree at 3am in Chestnut Close.

The police are not treating the deaths as suspicious.

Mr Cudd’s mother told the Pink Paper:

“There was nothing whatsoever to suggest he would do something like this.

“Whatever the outcome, I will never believe he intended to take his own life. It was a tragic accident.”

Mr Cudd’s younger sister added: “Everyone thinks he didn’t mean to do it.”

Read more at pinknews.co.uk.

Boyfriend of Slain Turkey Gay Activist Forced to Flea

The partner of Ahmet Yildiz, the Turkish gay activist who was shot and killed, has been forced to flee Turkey in fear of his life. Yildiz, a 26-year-old physics student, was shot leaving a cafe on the Bosphorus strait during the weekend. It has been reported by several sources the killing was an “honor killing” by his own family, as being gay is widely unacceptable in Turkey. Yildiz’s partner, who held a German passport, fled Turkey on the advice of the consulate. He had no rights over his partner’s body, which has been left lying in the city morgue.