Northeastern student alleges gay bashing

by Ethan Jacobs
associate editor
Bay Windows

BOSTON: Daniel D’Orsi, a 22-year-old Northeastern student, was assaulted and robbed in the early morning hours of May 6 outside Fritz bar in the South End. D’Orsi, whose injuries were severe enough to require reconstructive surgery to repair his collapsed cheekbone, said the assailant shouted anti-gay slurs at him during the assault.

Boston Police are currently investigating the incident as a straightforward assault and robbery rather than as a hate crime.

A detective from D-4 involved in the case, who declined to give his name to Bay Windows, said police do not believe the mugging was a gay-bashing because the description of the assailant provided by Warner matches that of a man who attempted to mug a woman a block away on Lawrence Street about a week before D’Orsi’s assault. In that instance the detective said the woman was able to get inside her apartment, lock the door before the assailant reached her and call the police.

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