(Authorities have charged the suspects with assisting in a criminal street gang. In Juan’s view, calling the crime what he believes it is is key to heading off an inaccurate and demeaning portrayal of the murder - “another brown-on-brown gang crime,” Juan said. To their great frustration, he said, they’ve made little headway, prompting the family to call for a reform to the state’s hate crime statute. Juan said his family has pleaded with local and federal prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges. “It’s clear as day to everybody who sees this - he was targeted for being gay.” “There’s more than enough evidence here,” Juan said. In the online conversation, which occurred in a group chat and was included in a probable cause statement from the Phoenix Police Department, some of the suspects made “derogatory remarks regarding the victim’s sexuality and a derogatory statement about homosexuals not being allowed in the northside” of Phoenix.
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