Hammer-Wielding Man Attacks Gay-Owned Restaurant as Patrons Flee
A gay-owned restaurant in Chicago had a window shattered by a hammer-wielding man in a suspected homophobic attack last night. Witnesses and police say a man was shouting antigay slurs at a couple in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood afternoon and followed them into the R Public House in the 1500 block of West Jarvis Avenue. The man allegedly turned violent when fellow patrons stood up to the man and told him to leave. “He walked in, started calling them some like antigay slurs, and they were like, ‘Just leave, man, just get out of here,’” bar employee Corey Rolon told local […]