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Hoodie-Wearing Gang Of Teens Sought In Savage Anti-Gay Attack

Victim Has Broken Jaw, Eye Sockets And Plates Inserted In Head

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Barie Shortell Before and After The Attack (Photo: The Brooklyn Paper)

Barie Shortell Before and After The Attack (Photo: The Brooklyn Paper)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Brooklyn man was brutally beaten by a group of teenagers last month in what has been deemed a hate crime.

Barie Shortell, 29, was walking down North Fourth Street in Williamsburg at around 10 p.m. on Feb. 22 when a group of teens started taunting him, according to The Brooklyn Paper.

Shortell told The Paper the teens started to mock him and began yelling anti-gay slurs so he decided to cross to Wyeth Avenue to be on the safe side.

That is when the hoodie-wearing gang of teens shoved him against a wall and started attacking him. Although he was not robbed, he suffered a fractured jaw, broken nose and eye sockets.

“I feel pretty confident they perceived me as a gay man and attacked me, but I can’t understand why they did what they did. I looked horrible. Blood was everywhere,” Shortell told The Paper.

He also said he has no recollection of the attack.

Shortell required 10 hours of surgery to rewire his jaw and have three metal plates put in his head. One surgeon is said to have compared the force of impact to that of a car accident.

Shortell’s medical bills are estimated to exceed $100,000. He has no health insurance so his friends are hosting a fundraiser to help offset the costs of his hospital bills and physical therapy.

The fundraiser, ”Gay Bash: A Benefit For Barie Shortell,” will take place next Wednesday, March 23 at 7 p.m.at Blackout bar in Greenpoint. Check out this Facebook page for more information. 

So far no arrests have been made. If you have any information that could help solve this crime please contact the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force at 646-610-5267.

Disgusted by this? Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below.

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  • Bill Hicks

    “The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7criyE09uy0

    • Clinton Bill

      bill – good luck living in obama’s America with all of his sycophants’ vitriol and hate ………. just like that the kid in the hospital had to endure

  • DrPhill

    Well, I’ve read numerous comments and no one seems to want to state the obvious. This man was attacked because he is white. DUH!

    • Jack Kennedy

      it has been stated numerous times and anyone with a lick of sense and honesty knows that ………… this is just another case of BLACK BEATING WHITE hate crime

  • Bill Smith

    You New Yorkers, stuck in your own world, no new outside ideas will penetrate. Everywhere else in the country, private citizens are armed. You do not understand that. The Hoodies would not all have walked away from this if they confronted an armed man or woman. And his lawyer bills would be much cheaper than his medical bills. Plus he would not be maimed for life.

  • Mr. Turner

    The corner of N. 4th and Wythe Ave. looks pretty bleak on Google street view. I’m certainly not justifying the attack, but I’m not sure I’d have been walking down there at 10pm.

    • barie’s mom

      You have to get home somehow!

  • Isaac

    I’m not disgusted in the slightest. This is a perfect example of some members of a society strongly disapproving of a an individuals behavior and responding in their own way.

    I wouldn’t respond in the same fashion as the hoodlums, I’d just not serve him if he came into my establishment.

    • Bob

      What behavior? What the hell are you talking about? The guy could be a swishy virgin. How do you care about it?

    • Seena

      YOU ARE AN IDIOT ISAAC. I’D BEAT YOUR ASS AND SPIT ON YOU!

      • Real Rick

        Wow Seena, fixating on the ass? Shows what you’re fantasying about.

      • Jack Kennedy

        oh look, more LIBERAL VITRIOL AND HATE ………… and after your leader told you to tone it doooowwwnnnn.

    • Cliff

      So you’re saying you wouldn’t serve a man simply because he may be gay? Do share where your establishment is so everyone can make sure and steer clear.

    • Wolf

      You’re one scarey dude Isaac.

    • Alamosq

      Is it acceptable for someone to do this to one of your children or spouse if their behavior is not to my liking?

    • Swish E. Virgin

      Oddly enough, Isaac sells sequined speedos for men.

    • Barie’s mom

      What is your establishment? I’m sure alot of us would like to know so we make sure we NEVER step foot in there. Please do tell!!!!

    • Barie’s mom

      Please do tell what and where your “establishment” is. I’m sure there are many of out here who would make sure they never stepped foot in you “establishment” Please do tell, I’d like to spread the word!!!!!!!

  • dudley

    Sorry for typo…cell phone typing, I`m not good at!

  • dudley

    Wow! What comments! NYC’S melting pot is boiling over! As France, Britain & Germany are now saying, “multiculturism isn’t working.” Yes it’s true!

    • Bob

      When did it ever work? Ever hear of White Flight? They got out as fast as they could. Now their white children are back, and that’s great, but these hipsters and yuppies need to be tough enough to deal with the “elements”. They’re not. If anything, they’re anti-gun liberal sissies. Not strong enough to retake the land.

      • Clinton Bill

        my kids learned reeaaal fast and I did not have to warn them or anything ………… just made sure that they saw the real news and were always armed

        both quit great jobs to get away form the diversity zoo and got back to the real America

  • Fanny Forbes Franklen

    “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
    - Plato ——— http://911essentials.com

  • Bob

    So when it inevitably turns out the thugs were black & Hispanic, will all you trolls crying “racism” come back and apologize?

    • Ooba Dooba

      If a violent crime is committed in the US, there is a >75% chance it was perpetrated by a brown or black man.

    • Alamosq

      They will not.

  • Glenn

    Who can we blame your idocy on?

  • Rob

    If the animals that did this are found, they should be put to sleep.

  • Lingam

    “in hoodies” = code for “a buncha black guys.”

    • chav

      maybe it does, so what

    • anti-Lingam

      no, the teenagers in North Williamsburg are mostly not black. It’s mostly Italian and Polish and yes, teenagers of every ethnicity wears hoodies.

      • Zero

        You are joking right? Where do you live. I lived on 3rd Street, a block away. The neiighborhood was almost all Puerto Rican and Jamacian. The only white people within a mile were the Hasidic Jews on the other side of Broadway, but even they have been leaving for years.

      • Alamosq

        Who ever did it, should be swinging from a tree. These people are animals.

  • Ralph

    Hey Erik, is that how you found this story, by linking to Drudge?

  • Pouncekitty

    The Democrat Party Plantation that has enslaved Black Americans is responsible for this. They keep telling us we’re weak and can’t get along by ourselves. They dope us with welfare and food stamps. No wonder teenage Black Americans are hopeless. Thanks to the Democrat Party and the weakling leftists who support these genocidal policies that have crippled Black Americans!

    • chav

      so get a fucin’ job and stop complaining

      • Alamosq

        nice response. This guy is telling it like it is. Maybe he has a job and a succesful life.

    • Real Rick

      Pouncekitty, you ROCK!!!

  • richard

    gee no description

    • deputy

      that’s what happens when someone beats the memory out of you

  • Keesha Lenard

    THIS IS AN AWFUL ACT ON A HUMAN BEING REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HARM ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND DEAD WRONG

    • Emm

      So true. If someone gets the stuffing beaten out of him or her, the person or people responsible should rot in jail.
      Sexuality shouldn’t be a factor for punishment. A victim is a victim. People that want to hurt people shouldn’t be part of society.

  • artemis133

    Disgusting. Get well soon, Barie.

  • Rick

    very funny thom luk

    We need to find a place for these teens to hang out. For a repercussion, I propose that they should serve the beers at the Hangout to raise money until they make $100,000. I do not think that they would enjoy hanging out with this guys buddies and would be much more painful than any other punishment.

  • Slash

    “Hood-wearing blick kids beat up an unarmed white man.”

    You’ll never see that headline, no matter how true. If it were white kids, there would be mugshots. No mugshots. Why does the media cover for these degnerates???

    Ask me why I never leave the house unarmed. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

    • Ken R

      They haven’t caught the cowards yet. The victim has no memory of the attack. So far, the only ones who know the race of the cowards who attacked him are the cowards who attacked him.

      • stanley

        Well, logic and deduction only lead to two choices, and we all know what they are!!!

    • Anti-Slash

      the kids probably weren’t “blick”. I don’t know how familiar you are with North Williamsburg, but I live here. Most of the local teenagers are Italian and Hispanic.

    • lakelivin11

      It’s really a shame that the youths are called HOODIE WEARING instead of black or brown.It the criminals were white, their description would be white and the NAACP would be screaming for justice. I wish you in the main stream media would show the equality in reporting, that you seam to require of the rest of us.

  • captaintrps

    Anyone see the ACLU lately?

  • Hoovdog23

    So how did the attackers know he was gay or is he just trying to get sympathy for the gay rights group when it was just a random attack? “perceived he was a gay man?” Why did they perceive that? Did he approach one for sex? What is really the truth?

    • Go figure

      That makes a lot of sense!

      “he has no recollection of the attack”

      BUT

      “I feel pretty confident they perceived me as a gay man”

      • Go figure2

        he has no recollection of the ATTACK ITSELF..not the moments before it i.e. the slurs the men were saying to him about being a gay male. he obviously knows he was attacked after the slurs were made, put two and two together it makes four.

      • Barie’s mom

        The paper does edit, and sometimes the context can get distorted. Barie does NOT have recollection of how many times his head was slammed into the cement. That makes sense, right? He does have recollection of the comments they said before he was jumped, from BEHIND, mind you. !!!! Clear that up for you?????

  • Go figure

    Gee what group most wears hoodies?

    • Larry T

      That’s politically correct liberal jargon for “black youths.”

  • HUGO

    jd, stop covering for your friends.

  • Bushelfoote

    One thing’s for sure: The man’s economics are impeccable….he put the tax code right side up again,Paid down the nat’l debt, and had this country rockin’!!! Then we all went stupid and elected the next guy who presided over the destruction of ALL the gains made during Clinton’s presidency…..It IS the economy,STUPIDS……WHY!!! WHY!! WHY!! couldn’t it stay like it was??? Vote Democrat in 2012!!!!

    • jon thompson

      If you think the Dems are the answer you are confused. You have one in the Whitehouse now or did you just come out of your coma ?

    • Rob

      I’m not sure how you got on discussing Bush, but here are the facts. Clinton was doing a horrible job as president the first few years, so the public in 1994 elected a Republican House and Senate. With the Republican Congress taxes were lowered, the economy picked up, unemployment dropped to 6% and by the end of Clinton’s terms in office, the Republicans had reformed welfare and balanced the budget. When Bush was elected he got blind sided nine months after beginning his term when Terrorists attacked the Trade Center and Pentagon. Because of having to respond to this Bush had to borrow too much money and increased the deficit to $168 Billion his first year. Despite the shock to the economy Bush was still able to lower taxes and spur growth. Unemployment dropped to 4.5%, interest rates dropped to their lowest in history. The economy rocked. Although the deficit got as high as $300 Billion, he ended up getting it back down to $161 Billion when he left office. The economy was doing real well until 1998 when the Democrats took over Congress because of the lies being told by the media about Bush. After two years of Democrats controlling the Congress unemployment had increased to 6.5-7.0%. So Bush left office with a $161 Billion dollar deficit, growth 3.5%, 0% inflation. Obama was elected and in 2001 Democrats controlled the presidency and BOTH Houses of Congress. Democrats had total control to do anything they wanted. Unfortunately they did and Obama borrowed record amounts of money and turned an average recession into a full blown depression. After 2 years of Complete Democrat Control unemployment was 10%, the deficit had ballooned to $3.7 Trillion Dollars, core inflation was 1.5%, gasoline $4.00 per gallon, growth 0% of GDP. So there it is the TRUTH all lined out for anyone to understand. Only a fool would ever vote for a Democrat again. When they had total control they destroyed our country in two years. Democrats will never have the right to blame Bush for anything, because Obama has proven democrats are too stupid to run a country.

  • Jack Kennedy

    it was reallygangstas beating white guy, but this story gives the brothers some cover to get off the hook

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