BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A person has been charged with a hate crime for utilizing a gay slur in opposition to one other man after which assaulting him with a knife in downtown Bellingham.
Court docket paperwork state that the sufferer and two associates had been smoking outdoors the Horseshoe Cafe on Halloween night time, October thirty first, when Charles Shipley walked by.
They are saying he directed the slur on the sufferer whereas saying the person ought to die.
The person adopted Shipley into an alley the place Shipley pulled a knife and lunged at him, reducing his chin.
Shipley faces fees of assault with a lethal weapon and fee of a hate crime.
