Psychotic Straight Man Charged With Hate Crime After Using Grindr To Try And Murder Gay Oregon Man: “He’s A Demon!”
Can Grindr do anything to prevent straight men from using their worthless app to rob and/or murder gays? Apparently not, and this latest instance of violence has to serve as a reminder that the only truly safe way to meet someone (and even this comes with risks) using Grindr is to do it in a public place. Your best bet, of course, is to stay home and avoid interacting with all people in general (especially new people), but that’s just me.
Via WaPo, an Oregon man was nearly murdered by a deranged straight (or perhaps severely closeted gay) guy:
On July 5, Daniel Andrew McGee messaged a man on Grindr, the dating app primarily used by gay men, under the pseudonym “str8 curious,” prosecutors said. That day, McGee allegedly told the man, whom authorities did not identify, that he had “just turned 18 a few months ago” and that if he agreed to meet, there would be no kissing. The two arranged for McGee to go to the man’s apartment later that evening, court records state.
“[We will] be all alone right?” McGee allegedly asked. “No roommates?”
But the date swiftly turned into a crime scene.
When McGee entered the man’s apartment in Eugene, Ore., court records state, he swung a wooden club he’d purchased online weeks before the encounter and repeatedly hit the man on the head, attempting to kill him.
McGee allegedly struck the man with such force that a part of his scalp was missing. The victim was later transported to a hospital and survived the attack. On June 16, less than three weeks before the attack, McGee purchased the wooden club and a black wig he wore the night of the encounter, the affidavit states.
Detectives found, according to court documents, that McGee had previously used the Internet to search for and view homophobic and violent anti-gay material. Some of the key words and phrases he allegedly searched for included “internalized homophobia,” “grindr stalker” and “trolling grindr gays.” He also allegedly searched terms including “serial killer,” “how long does it take for a human body to decompose in the summer” and “how easy is it to get away with a crime.”
McGee has now been charged with a hate crime, but based on these other details below, it sounds like he’ll plead some kind of insanity defense, so who knows if the hate crime charge will stick:
McGee told detectives he went to the man’s apartment because he knew that demons would be there, the criminal complaint states. McGee also told police that he had nightmares telling him there were demons and that he needed to kill the man, adding that he intended to “slay” him and “get rid of him,” court records state. He told police that he had hit the man with the wooden club and his fists without provocation, according to court records.
When asked whether he targeted the man because he was gay, McGee allegedly replied, “No, he’s a demon!”
Move over Twinkie defense, we now have the gay demon defense.
