A raucous party turned ugly early Sunday morning when two masked gunmen crashed with two semi-automatic guns and promptly shot at the crowd of 100, hitting six. While there's no conclusive evidence, police are looking into whether the attack can be classified as the dreaded hate crime.

You see, two gay men owned the apartment and apparently their faggotry and frequent late-night parties didn't sit well with the neighbors. A particularly eloquent 18-year old neighbor named Kevin Carter mused:

We always be seeing them, and they always be looking at people. They give you that gay look, like you're a female or something. That ain't cute. People be ready to fight...

Ain't cute, indeed. Almost as uncute as referring to women as "females".

Anyway, the case may seem cut and dry, but the attackers didn't spew any anti-homo vernacular - you know, like, "Die Faggot, Die", thus blurring the motivational lines.

A concerned neighbor who would only identify himself as "Mr. Cartel" - a suspicious name, to say the least - says the owner's been harassed for being gay and they feared something like this would happen:

I know they have been having problems periodically. That's why I've been coming over here to check up on him. I hope this was not a hate crime.

Does it really matter if it's classified as a hate crime, Mr. Cartel? Sure, it makes for a more dramatic case, but the fact that six people got shot's pretty gross in and of itself. We're more concerned with police finding the gunmen rather than the linguistic legalities of it all.