Charg brought dg aths, robberi of gay NYC clubgoers

Contents:

• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON
• FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• ROBBERI AFFECTG NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE ILLUMATED BY GRIEVG MOM: 'THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG'
• 2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE
• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED
• NYPD ANNOUNC TWO ARRTS GAY BAR ROBBERI AND DGGG ATHS
• GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD
• NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS
• ROBBERY CREW DGGED GAY MEN LEAVG NYC CLUBS, KILLG TWO, POLICE SAY
• ARRTS MA ADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, 1 SPECT STILL AT LARGE
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• NEW YORK CY SPECT GAY BAR ROBBERI, DGGGS DICTED ON CHARG OF GRAND LARCENY AND INTY THEFT

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIt was the fifth arrt nnected to a seri of dgggs and robberi that killed two men last Q bar Hell’s Kchen was one of the bars where victims were targeted the Moon for The New York TimA man whom the Police Department scribed as a lear of a gang that perpetrated a seri of robberi and killgs at Manhattan gay bars has been arrted, law enforcement officials said on man, Jayqwan Haton, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrted on Monday and charged wh murr, grand larceny and other crim nnectn wh the killgs of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger, two men who were dgged at bars Manhattan, robbed g facial regnn technology on their phon and later found ad of enforcement said the motive for the killgs was fancial, but the murrs neverthels terrorized the cy’s L. Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker om Queens, was dgged at the Rz, a gay bar Hell’s Kchen, and left wh a group of men who abandoned his body the back of a taxi on the Lower East Si roughly one hour later, his fay month later, Mr. Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was dgged at the Q, a gay bar near the Rz, and was found ad five days later, his fay fai of both men disvered that money had been taken om their acunts after they died.

The documents said the assailants appeared to be motivated by money and not bias, and that attacks took place at tablishments that tered to both gay and straight patrons. Several gay men who told The Tim they had been dgged said the police did not take their claims asked on Tuday if the police rponse had been fluenced by bias, Commissner Keechant L. Three men who vised a New York Cy gay bar were robbed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs on their phon, the New York Police Department nfirmed on three men, who were their late 30s and 40s, vised a Chelsea gay leather bar, The Eagle NYC, on separate nights October and November and were each robbed of $1, 000 to $5, 000, acrdg to the NYPD’s puty missner of public rmatn.

”The police spokperson said the cints at The Eagle NYC and Hotel Chantelle are not related to any other pattern of robberi happeng the recent robberi bear a remblance to the s, reported by NBC News November, of Jul Ramirez, 25, a social worker, and John Umberger, 33, a polil nsultant, who were targeted siar fashn and suffered unexplaed the separate evengs of their aths, Ramirez and Umberger were seen leavg New York Cy gay bars wh groups of men before their bank acunts were draed of thoands of dollars g facial regnn accs to their phon, acrdg to their fay members.

PATRONS OF NYC GAY BAR PACATED AND ROBBED OF THOANDS VIA FACIAL REGNN ON THEIR PHON

A third and fal spect was arrted nnectn wh the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay bars last year, two senr law enforcement officials said Monday. ” Multiple dgs were found their systems, cludg fentanyl, lidoe and obtaed secury vio showg Haton and Dema enterg and leavg Umberger’s temporary rince Manhattan’s Upper East Si, two senr law enforcement officials have Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints after viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThrough a search warrant, police also revered two vios om Dema’s phone that showed Dema and Barroso at the se of Umberger’s ath, the two officials said.

The men would e the physil rds and rmatn stored on the victims’ phon to transfer money to themselv and make purchas, the dictment News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to last month. It is unclear, however, whether they were found ad after havg vised gay bars or whether they were nnected wh Dema, Barroso and Haton. A send spect was arrted and charged wh murr nnectn wh a strg of dg-facilated robberi of men who vised gay bars New York Cy that clud two aths, two senr law enforcement officials told NBC News on Monday.

Umberger and Jul Ramirez, a 25-year-old social worker, were both found ad after visg gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg.

FAL SPECT ARRTED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

” Multiple dgs were found their systems, cludg fentanyl, lidoe and Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary; Fay photoThe two law enforcement officials said that police obtaed secury vio showg Dema and Jayqwan Haton — one of three spects police have named nnectn to the homicis of Umberger and Ramirez — enterg and leavg Umberger's temporary rince Manhattan's Upper East Si. The New York Cy Police Department prevly nfirmed to NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men.

They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr. Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars.

MURR SPECTS ARRAIGNED STRG OF NYC GAY BAR ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020. Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December. ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge.

The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. A grievg mother’s fight to fd answers about the ath of her son has helped to shed light on a spected rash of dgggs and robberi affectg New York Cy’s gay nightlife Clary’s 33-year-old son, John Umberger, was found ad June after he was last seen walkg out of a midtown Manhattan bar wh two strangers.

ROBBERI AFFECTG NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE ILLUMATED BY GRIEVG MOM: 'THIS HAS GONE ON TOO LONG'

They ma me feel like was my flt, like I did to myself, ” Alarn April, jt outsi the same gay bar that Alarn went to, 25-year-old Jul Ramirez was seen gettg to a b wh three unknown men.

Dpe her ial ncerns, Clary add that she’s thankful for the New York Police homici tective who’s now workg the York Cy police cled ment to ABC News, cg that they’re alg wh an ongog have said ’s not jt gay men who are gettg targeted and that they know this is happeng both straight and gay nightclubs across the months of worry across New York, they say they’ve now arrted six men who are facg grand larceny, inty theft, asslt and other charg. The aths of Jul Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33, are beg vtigated by the NYPD's homici un after both were allegedly dgged at popular gay bars and later found ad wh thoands of dollars whdrawn om their acunts, The New York Tim reported Saturday, while others have claimed to have survived siar experienc.

Sce Ramirez and Umberger's ath, New York Cy Council member Erik Bottcher and volunteers have passed out flyers Hell's Kchen, notifyg gay men of the spected dgggs and warng them to be "extra vigilant. The aths e amid mountg homophobic stigma around Monkeypox, "groomer" rhetoric sparked by "Don't Say Gay" bills and the recent adly shootg at LGBTQ tablishment Club Q Colorado Sprgs, Colo., which killed five people and jured 18 others.

2 KILLED SPECTED RASH OF DGGGS AND ROBBERI N.Y.C. GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE

The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg a strg of cints which gay men say they were dgged at bars and left wh massive unthorized bank acunt whdrawals. At least two other gay men were disvered ad wh spic bank whdrawals, acrdg to fay members who are soundg the alarm on their aths.

NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS

"Umberger, 33, was disvered ad an Upper East Si townhoe May after he left a gay club Hell’s Kchen wh a group of other men, the New York Tim reported Saturday. Jt a month earlier, another man named Jul Ramirez, 25, died the back of a b after leavg a gay bar wh a group of men jt blocks om where Umberger had spent the eveng before his both s, the men’s cellphon were missg when their bodi were disvered. "VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKThe New York Cy Police Department told Fox News Digal on Monday that Ramirez’s and Umberger’s aths "are currently unr vtigatn and the medil examer will terme their of ath.

The Rz Bar and Lounge Manhattan (Google Maps)Other men, however, have also reported beg dgged and robbed of fanc after a night out at a gay bars and clubs Manhattan. "After wakg up, he disvered $2, 000 had been transferred out of his acunts through Paypal and Zelle apps on his New York Tim spoke to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy and then robbed.

FAL SPECT NYC GAY BAR DGGGS AND ROBBERI ARRTED

SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRESTED"[The NYPD] asked me if I had been asslted, and I was like, ‘Gettg dgged is asslt, ’" Tyler Burt, 27, said. ’" The Boiler Room Manhattan (Google Maps)Burt said he was robbed of more than $25, 000 after beg dgged at the Boiler Room gay bar the East Village last asked about the strg of alleged dgggs and robberi agast gay men, the NYPD nfirmed to Fox News Digal that the "Crim Agast Persons Un, along wh the Manhattan North and South Homici Squads, are jotly workg wh our partners the New York County District Attorney’s Office to vtigate several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt. The strg of dg-facilated robberi of men who vised gay bars Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood had rulted two aths, and had the cy’s LGBTQ muny on edge for months.

Last month the New York Cy Medil Examer’s Office led Umberger’s ath and the ath of another man, Jul Ramirez, a gay 25-year-old social worker who died the back of a taxi b a year ago also after visg a popular, multilevel gay venue the heart of the Hell’s Kchen, homicis ed by a “dg-facilated theft. “The chos of Big Apple Performg Arts (BAPA) cludg the New York Cy Gay Men’s Chos, Youth Pri Chos, and Tonewall are eply sadned and outraged by the tragic killg of O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year old Black gay man who was murred at a Mobil gas statn Brooklyn for simply vogug.

NYPD ANNOUNC TWO ARRTS GAY BAR ROBBERI AND DGGG ATHS

This is why the chos of BAPA not only strive to cultivate a safe space for artists, but bat homophobia through mic and advote for protectns for LGBTQ people, ” Blackwell ntued. The men would e the physil rds and rmatn stored on the victims’ phon to transfer money to themselv and make purchas, the dictment News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to last York Cy police prevly nfirmed that multiple groups of crimals are mtg such crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars.

Both of their bank acunts were they may not be the only gay New Yorkers are g forward for the first time wh acunts that share notable siari to the unexplaed aths this sprg of Jul Ramirez, 25, a social worker, and John Umberger, 33, a polil biggt difference so far: They News spoke to two people who scribed harrowg experienc that seem to broadly f the pattern of what happened to Ramirez and Umberger. Meanwhile, the gay muny the untry’s largt LGBTQ cy awas Person, 55, says he was robbed siar circumstanc 2018 and, bed wh the recent reports, the experience has left him shaken.

”No memori and emptied bank acuntsIn December, Burt — who reached out to NBC News on social media after recent reports regardg the two aths — was walkg home om a night out wh iends when he stopped at The Boiler Room, a popular gay bar Manhattan’s East Village, for one last drk by himself. Lda Clary is prsg the NYPD to further vtigate the ath of her son, John ClaryRoughly a month later, Umberger was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell’s Kchen gay bar, The Q. C., were found ad separate cints after leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen 2022, both had thoands of dollars stolen om their acuntsThey died of a toxic dg batn, their topsi found; July, an acclaimed fashn signer was found ad her Manhattan apartment of another toxic nartic bo -- those three aths may be lked to two separate ongog overdose robbery patterns, law enforcement officials saySix spects have been dicted the first pattern; law enforcement officials say that crew is thought to be behd 17 robberi and the aths of Jul Ramirez and John Umberger; the send is thought to be rponsible for 26, cludg the ath of Kathryn Gallagher.

GAY NEW YORKERS SHARE ACUNTS SIAR TO ROBBERI THAT LEFT TWO AD

As the third and fal spect was arraigned Tuday nnectn wh the overdose aths of two Manhattan gay bar patrons police said were dgged and robbed, there is more rmatn g out about the scheme rried out by three men. The mayor joed Manhattan District Attorney Alv Bragg and NYPD Commissner Keechant Sewell to announce the end of the year-long vtigatn to the overdose aths of two gay men who were victims of the scheme: 25-year-old social worker Jul Ramirez and 33-year-old polil nsultant John Umberger.

NEW INFO ON DEADLY DGGGS, ROBBERI AT NYC GAY BARS — AND THERE MAY BE MORE VICTIMS

Both Umberger and Ramirez were seen leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen shortly before they disappeared, wh people they did not know. When asked if the NYPD may have ignored the overdose aths at first bee the victims were gay men, law enforcement officials tegorilly nied the claim. Four men have been charged nnectn wh a scheme to dg and rob dnk gay men as they left bars Manhattan a se that igned fears New York's LGBTQ Dema and Jab Barroso were charged Monday wh murr, robbery, inty theft and nspiracy, among other unts.

ROBBERY CREW DGGED GAY MEN LEAVG NYC CLUBS, KILLG TWO, POLICE SAY

A send spect was arrted and charged wh murr nnectn wh a strg of dg-facilated robberi of men who vised gay bars New York Cy that clud two aths, two senr law enforcement officials told NBC News on Dema, 34, was charged wh murr, robbery, grand larceny, inty theft and nspiracy nnectn wh the ath of John Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, and a separate cint which an unintified victim did not die, the officials said.

“The fendants showed a llo disregard for human life — and now, we are workg to hold them acuntable, " Sewell said a News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October New York Cy Police Department prevly nfirmed to NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars.

ARRTS MA ADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, 1 SPECT STILL AT LARGE

Spects arraigned for murr alleged gay bar robbery scheme The NYPD has arrted another spect nnectn to the aths of two men after they went to gay bars Hell's Kchen. NEW YORK CITY - The New York Cy Police Department has arrted two of the three spects wanted nnectn wh the aths of two men found dgged after leavg gay bars Manhattan. The NYPD has arrted one of the three spects wanted nnectn wh the aths of two men found dgged after leavg gay bars Manhattan.

Moon for The New York TimThree men were charged on Monday, two of them wh murr, a seri of fatal dgggs at Manhattan gay bars that killed two people and have spread fear through the cy’s L. Prosecutors believe the crim were rried out by what they lled “a crew” of attackers who preyed on people Hell’s Kchen, a gay nightlife district Midtown Manhattan, slippg dgs to unspectg bar patrons and then leadg them to a send lotn, sometim their own hom, to rob Police Department said at least one spect, Jayqwan Haton, remaed at large on Monday.

Ramirez appear to have been motivated by money and not anti-gay bias, and that a wave of siar crim has stck both gay and straight bars across the the crim have had a sgular impact on the cy’s tight-kn L. Nightlife for years: the e of easily obtaable dgs, such as GHB, which is ed recreatnally small dos by some the gay muny, to pacate and rob Tim terviewed over a dozen men who said they were dgged at gay bars and then robbed and left man, Tyler Burt, who was attacked at an East Village bar December 2021 and awoke his apartment to fd more than $25, 000 of goods stolen om him, said his doctor suggted that he had been given Stack is a relign rrponnt on the Metro sk, verg New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: 3 Held Dggg Murrs And Robberi at Gay Bars. NYC is a ‘great disappotment’: Ray Kelly Former NYC police missner Ray Kelly says the state of New York Cy ‘turned around rapidly’ after Mayor Bloomberg’s term and this generatn of policians ‘sabotaged’ the tactics that ma the cy the ‘saft’ York Cy officials are releasg more rmatn about a spect who prosecutors say is nnected to a strg of cints which gay men allegedly dgged at bars and left wh massive unthorized bank acunt whdrawals. Acrdg to prosecutors, Shane Hosks is nnected to a group that would dg and rob men who would vis gay bars the cy, vtigators said, which rulted two fatal overdos.

NEW YORK CY SPECT GAY BAR ROBBERI, DGGGS DICTED ON CHARG OF GRAND LARCENY AND INTY THEFT

(Fox 5/Lda Clary)NEW YORK CITY GAY COMMUNITY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRING OF ALLEGED DRUGGINGS, ROBBERIES AND AT LEAST TWO DEATHSHosks fac charg that clu robbery and inty theft nnectn to the fatal dggg May 2022. His bail was set at around $50, 000, acrdg to FOX 5 New year, at least two other gay men were disvered ad wh spic bank whdrawals, acrdg to fay members who are soundg the alarm on their aths.

Umberger, 33, was disvered ad an Upper East Si townhoe May after he left the gay club, The Q NYC, Hell’s Kchen wh a group of other men. (Fox 5)Jt a month earlier, another man named Jul Ramirez, 25, died the back of a b after leavg a gay bar wh a group of men jt blocks om where Umberger had spent the eveng before his ath.