Georgia man poured boiling water on gay couple
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The couple were having sex, according to one report, when the angry boyfriend of one of the men’s mother walked in and scalded them.
Anthony Gooden and Marquez Tolbert were sleeping in Gooden’s apartment on February 12 when Martin Blackwell, the boyfriend of Gooden’s mother, walked in. According to Tolbert, Blackwell poured boiling water on the men, causing severe burns that required surgery to treat. Blackwell, who didn’t live in the apartment, told Tolbert, “Get out of my house with all that gay shit.”
“The pain doesn’t let you sleep. It’s just, like, it’s excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn’t go anywhere,” Tolbert told Atlanta’s WSB-TV. “It doesn’t dial down, anything. It’s just there.”Blackwell said the men were having sex when he poured hot water on them, Sarah Kaplan reported for the Washington Post. But Vickie Gray, a friend of Tolbert’s, said they were sleeping, although the attack wouldn’t be justified if the men were having sex.
Blackwell is currently in jail, charged with two counts of aggravated battery.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.