A Georgia man poured boiling hot water on a man and his boyfriend as they slept in a sickening crime motivated by violent homophobia.
21-year-old Marquez Tolbert and his boyfriend Anthony Gooden were sleeping at Gooden’s Atlanta apartment when Gooden’s mother’s boyfriend poured hot water on them. Tolbert suffered second and third degree burns, and required a 10-day hospital stay to replace skin that had been burned off of his back. Gooden was recently released from the hospital.
The alleged perpetrator, 48-year-old Martin Blackwell, was charged with two counts of aggrivated battery, and WSB-TV2 Atlanta reports that the local LGBT liason intervened to ensure that Blackwell didn’t post bail.
In Tolbert’s heartbreaking interview, he explained how the attack has physically affected him:
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“The pain doesn’t let you sleep. It’s just, like, it’s excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t dial down, anything. It’s just there.I can barely think straight because the burning, the stinging is everywhere. Martin pulled me up and said, ‘Get out of my house with all that gay.’ I couldn’t stop screaming.”
He also believes the attack was motivated by Blackwell’s homophobia:
“Why else would you pour boiling hot water on somebody?”
Grant Mealey
Unacceptable ð??¢
Dantonio Lopez
Luis H. Lopez
Gays carry guns and defend yourselves against bigots who attack you
rickhfx
Str8 people doing what they do best. Harming others.
Brent Labee
they are sooo adorable but honey your preaching to the choir about their suffering. life is cluster f*ck. do not get me started. woooo
AtticusBennett
nice timing, the Georgia and their appalling anti-LGBT “religious freedom law” happening…
maybe the attacker can claim he was just performing, like, a really warm baptism?
JerseyMike
WOW!! No words!!
Chris Sledge
I swear of the world has gone topsy-turvy with all this crazy up is down and down is up WTF is going on is there something in the atmosphere that I don’t know about ð??¡
Justin Weeks
I hope someone beats that old man to fucking death! Fucking evil
RIck Dean
And this outrageous behavior is supported by the Georgia legislature. Pathetic,
RIck Dean
It occurs to me that if they’d been armed the story line might be a lot different .
Richard Lee Zweiben Klein
Oh how disgusting. Evil. When will this stop especially in our country where we’re suppose to have the persuit of happiness and liberty to live in peace of who we are. I just read the information about the mothers boyfriend. Thank you my Gay and Lesbian community being so active that bail for this creature can’t be posted. When he’s in prison let him get poked a few times by the inmates and see what will happen to him. Hope he gets life no parole. He will forever burn in hell. ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥ð??¥
Bob LaBlah
This is why I support the Second Amendment and oppose all who are trying to weaken it. They were in there asleep and he comes in and pours hot water on them? That sounds like a man who is unable to use his fists or even think for that matter but was “armed with a dangerous weapon when used as one, hot water”. The guy looks like a drunk or a drug addict. A MAN would have confronted them while they were fully clothed and went to blows. A man who knew the chances of him getting his ass beat would have resorted to this.
Were I either one of them this would not be the end of it. Me, his head and a baseball bat would have a date as SOON as I got well.
John Kuehnle
What the hell is wrong with some people?
Benet Leigh
My <3 goes out to the two men who were burned.
judysdad
Hard to believe how so many posters here manage to murder the English language in their posts. The dumbing down of America is definitely happening.
Invert
@RIck Dean: yeah but it probably would have been the gay guys up for murder as a result (assuming the shooting resulted in death of course).
And I’m not too sure the gays would have been acquitted even though shooting the assailant may result as an automatism response.
Invert
@judysdad: English isn’t the first language of everyone here and not everyone here is posting from America….
missedgle
Well theses young Men need to have a job or working. The first mistake was to sleep over at the Mothers apartment
sometimes people really don’t want that kinda perversion in their home. I’m speaking from experience. I’m so sad this to you guys. (This too shall pass)
missedgle
Happen
missedgle
We all really need to think and always be on the lookout everyone is not going to like us or love including family.
We have to create our on support groups.
Sluggo2007
Boiled lives matter.
bottom250
I am so in tears these poor men.
Ahearn Amo
Are you kidding me ??? Wtf
Daniel-Reader
I hope the two innocent victims sue him so he pays beyond the jail time.
kzen64
My boyfriend commented about this last night, I was wondering how it happened. I hope that mother is dumping her boyfriend.
Nice to see that their gofundme has meet their goal (with a little help from me.)
While I’m a big gun fan, don’t know that it would have made a difference here since they were sleeping.
asa1973
@missedgle: Whhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the F??
Stache
@asa1973: Missedgle’s trolling is as clever as her English I guess.
Kangol
@Bob LaBlah: You are starting to scare me. You used to post reasonable posts on here, and yet now you keep getting more and more conservative. What is going on down there in Florida or wherever you are? These two young men were SLEEPING, and nearly had their flesh burned off. What good would a gun have done under these circumstances? Had they had a gun handy and been writhing there in horrific pain, in shock, the creep could have grabbed it and finished them off! Come on, think through these things.
My heart goes out to these young gay men, and I pray they fully recover. I also pray the creepy attempted murdered gets convicted and spends time far away from them behind prison bars.
He BGB
Not too long ago in Atlanta a gay bar, The Eagle, was raided. Yes, in the old school style of taking IDs and making all patrons lie down on the dirty floors while they got them ready for the paddy wagon. Like its 1955. Ignorance is still rampant. Why be a coward and attack someone when they’re asleep? People following Ted Cruz probably think Jesus would want this. Nathan Deal, please veto the “religious freedom” bill.
joeyty
@He BGB: Don’t be r a c i s t.
Blackceo
Sick son of a bitch. I hope someone beats his ass to within an inch of his life.
missedgle
@Stache: Your so cruel
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missedgle
@asa1973: @Stache: Your so cruel
.your so cruel