A 44-year-old man has been arrested on charges of hate-crime assault for the antigay slashing last week of a 22-year-old man in a McDonald's in the West Village, the police said on Tuesday.
Last Wednesday evening, the police said, Keith Patron, of the Bronx, got into an argument with a man inside the restaurant at 136 West Third Street, made antigay statements and cut him on the elbow, face, back and neck with a razor. The news site DNAInfo reported that the victim was transgender and that the attacker told him he was “going to the wrong bathroom†before assaulting him.
The same McDonald's was the scene of an attack last year in which a 26-year-old man walked out of the restaurant and was brutally beaten. A different man was charged with that attack.
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