Gunman attacks center for gay teens in Israel, killing three

[ruggerson]

NOTE: This is posted in LBN, but the earlier reports claimed it was a "nightclub." In actuality, the gunman murdered gay kids at a LGBT community center.

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The assailant, reportedly masked and armed with an automatic rifle, opened fire on a weekly support group for gay teens in Tel Aviv. Ten others were wounded, one critically.

By Richard Boudreaux
5:17 PM PDT, August 1, 2009

Reporting from Jerusalem -- A gunman entered a community center for gay teenagers in Tel Aviv late Saturday and sprayed the room with automatic-rifle fire, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others in what activists called Israel's deadliest crime against homosexuals.

Police set up roadblocks in central Tel Aviv and launched a citywide search for the assailant, described by some witnesses as masked, dressed in black and apparently acting alone. Police said they were uncertain of his motive.

The crime shook the freewheeling coastal city's reputation as a relatively tolerant place for gay people. It occurred about 11 p.m. during a weekly support group session for gay teens in the basement center.

"Someone walked in and began firing left and right," Tel Aviv Police Chief Shahar Ayalon said in a televised report from the scene. "The shooter escaped and we are making every effort to find him."

The wounded struggled or were carried up a staircase to the street screaming for help.

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[Behind the Aegis]

1. Gunning down gay kids....

:puke:

[vadawg]

3. personally i think gunning down kids period is pretty fecked up

[ruggerson]

6. true that

but these kids more than likely weren't gunned down for being just kids.

[EFerrari]

2. Oh, no.

[X_Digger]

4. This thread will kill DU..

It will get moved between guns / Israel / GLBT so many times it'll leave skid marks.

Thoughts and best wishes for the survivors, wounded, & family of the slain. They should treat this as a hate crime, as it certainly appears targeted at glbt teens.

[UndertheOcean]

5. Barbaric