Sacramento man still in coma six weeks after suspected anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime

California Man Pleads Not Guilty After Gay Man Left in Coma

A California man has pleaded not guilty to a brutal attack that left a 57-year-old gay man in a coma after objecting to the victim’s Halloween costume. Sean Wesley Payton Jr., 24, of Sacramento, is accused of assaulting Alvin Prasad around 1:30 a.m. on November 1. Prasad had been out at Badlands, an LGBTQ nightclub, […] The post California Man Pleads Not Guilty After Gay Man Left in Coma appeared first on Metro Weekly.

After Attack Leaves LGBTQ Man Comatose, Lavender Heights Community Talks Safety

The Sacramento Bee reports that Doug Marques was hopeful that an approximately two-hour forum on safety in Lavender Heights represented a beginning. Read more at the Sacramento Bee

Sacramento man still in coma six weeks after suspected anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime

A Sacramento man's family and the local LGBTQ+ community are still fighting for justice six weeks after he was rendered comatose during an attack that's been designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime.Alvin Prasad, 57, was leaving an LGBTQ+ club with his daughter and a friend on Halloween night when a man began shouting at them from his car. Prasad’s daughter, Andrea, told ABC10 at the time that the man insulted her father's flamboyant costume "in …