A bisexual Alabama teen was found dead just a few days after telling his mother he thought someone was trying to kill him.
19-year-old Nicholas Hawkins made a frantic call to his mother and told her that acquaintance Joshua Adam Reese was trying to kill him. Three days later, Hawkins was found shot to death and Reese was arrested and being held as a person of interest in the crime.
The New Civil Rights Movement breaks it down:
Reese had been free on $50,000 bail after being charged with attempted murder in 2013, when he was accused of hitting a man over the head with a gun and trying to shoot him, according to AL.com. Reese has not yet been charged in connection with Hawkins’ death, and it’s unclear whether the teen’s sexual orientation was a motive for the murder.
Hawkins came out as bisexual in high school, according to BuzzFeed News, but later dropped out due to bullying, AL.com reported. He was weeks from earning his GED and planned to pursue a career in cosmetology.
“I know anybody who met him knows the person that he was, the bubbly personality he had,” Hawkins’ brother, Jacob, said at a candlelight vigil Wednesday night, according to AL.com.
Video of the candlelight vigil is below.
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We hope the family of Nicholas Hawkins gets the justice they deserve, and want to remind all of you to be safe out there.
Friends of the LGBT
This story is horrendous! such potential, killed before his dreams fulfilled. I’m sure he would have made a great cosmologist, which is what he was studying. so sad.
Leo Prince Sr.
A damn shame !, he’s in a better place!, prayers for him , and family !, R.I.P., young man !
RIck Dean
So sad and so very unnecessary. One more reason I will NEVER visit Alabama the hillbilly state.
Billy Budd
Poor kid, this is horrible. He is NOT in a better place. He should be alive.
scotty
fucking awful. 3 minutes alone with that deeply closted fag in the orange and white shirt is about all id need to exact a bit of justice
Lestar
This is so sad.
Kangol
Very to hear they caught the probable murderer. Lock him up and throw away the key.
Brian
The perpetrator is trash.
Captain Obvious
I’m sure when he tried to get help he was treated like he was being paranoid. Sadly people have to die or attacked before they’re believed about this stuff.
Just look at the mom who two parents tried to set up for drug possession over a PTA squabble. People are nuts nowadays but certainly not the ones who notice something is being directed at them.
Mark Pointon
So typical of a redneck state. Condolences to the family and friends of the guy
Billysees
The author of this article probably said it best —
We hope the family of Nicholas Hawkins gets the justice they deserve, and want to remind all of you to be safe out there.
Sluggo2007
Could Joshua Adam Reese be more “bubba” looking?
Luke Ellison
This is like the 4th story I’ve head about this morning, Not something I wanted to wake up to. I feel so sad but hopeful justice will be served.
Kevin J Desmond
This is yet another reason why ALL religions need to be outlawed and banned, it’s fucken disgusting that some people have to hate others for being born different. I hope the person/s who did this rot in hell where they belong !!!!!
joeyty
@Kevin J Desmond: Religion ? How does that come in here ? The Communist atheist governments sent gays away to siberia and other places to be re-educated.
joeyty
@Sluggo2007: He’s atually not bad-looking. If they were a couple then they were a hot-looking pair.
joeyty
@RIck Dean: Why ? Alabama is pretty low on the list for both homicides as well as hate crimes (per capita).
joeyty
@Mark Pointon: So typical a dopey queerty reader statement. You just had to chime in saying nothing. Like gays don’t get murdered (for all kinds of reasons, domestic or otherwise) in all other states ?
joeyty
@scotty: I doubt he’s closeted. And you’d probably wind up as his new little boytoy.
Jim Philbrick
Alabama is such a horrible evil state
joeyty
@Jim Philbrick: California probably has more child molestors. Per capita.
Justin Weeks
That’s just so sad people who kill other people like that for no reason are just trash and need to be thrown out with the rest of the trash
onthemark
@joeyty: Oh come on. Alabama has a much higher murder rate than the U.S. average, and higher rates of almost every other crime. It’s easy to look up these things.
joeyty
@onthemark: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord Well, here’s the murder rate. yes, I’ll admit it’s in the top ten, but I’ll just get called a whitesuppremacist and the like, again, if I point that out.
joeyty
@onthemark: 10 states with largest number of hate crimes per capita (as of 2014). http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2012/12/10-states-with-the-most-hate-crimes-per-capita.html
onthemark
@joeyty: You sound like someone who doesn’t really *believe* in hate crimes anyway? But according to your own Findlaw cite, there are tremendous disparities from state to state in reporting hate crime stats, and those high-ranked states may just be good at reporting them. Having personally been a victim of gay-bashing in Massachusetts, at least I had no qualms reporting it to the cops (who were helpful). In places like Alabama, homophobic and derisive cops might not take the statistics seriously, or the victim doesn’t even bother to report a hate crime and it doesn’t get counted.
Claude Peterson
so many bigotry and homophobia in USA…..
scotty
@Kevin J Desmond:
get rid of all religion
or
burn in hell
pick one
scotty
@joeyty:
i fucked guys like that before. they aint so tuff.
joeyty
@onthemark: There are probably a lot of factors that have to be considered.
djmjay2
He’s in a better place? What an insensitive thing to say about anyone that dies especially at the hands of another. He was a child when your dead your dead stop with the BS. I’m so tired of people sending thoughts and prayers to a person at their time of need they need cash not an empty fantasy.
bamafag64
@RIck Dean: Hey Rick. Hillbilly queer here from Alabama. I still have all my teeth and they aren’t green. My English is perfect cept when I talk to folks of your ilk. Then I have to comes down to ya’llzins level and say things only youzins will git. I’m an old queer sweetheart and I don’t live in the hills. I have a Phd in homo’s and rednecks and homophobes and jerks. Hmmm, let me think which one youzins be. I’ll have to study up on that and git back you to yaz. In da mean time darlin, plan ye a trip to Alabama cauz we gots some pretty queer boys and handsome queer menz that would pleasure themselves while they beat your ass.
bamafag64
@Jim Philbrick: Hey Jiyam. Read my post to Rick Dean and maybe ya’ll can meet up somewhere and ride together to my evil state. I’m sure you’ll leave with a different ‘perspective’. You might have to look that big ole word up. After which, come on down and sit by the fire and let us tell you some stories about folks who had the wrong impression of Alabama Who said some bad things before knowing what sweet, caring people we are. We always bandage up the idiots we beat the shit out of before we send them home. Evil maybe but sweet to the bone.
joeyty
@bamafag64: If he’s Jimster7 he shouldn’t be criticizing anyone in any other state at all.
spemat
so much for heterosexual privilege…