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Jury convicts in attack on N.Y. gay man
Washington Blade - March 28, 2006
Victim left for dead now uses wheelchair, has slurred speech
Steven Pomie cried in court on Tuesday after being convicted of a brutal attack that left a Brookly gay man in a wheelchair, the New York Daily News reported. Dwan Prince, 28, was beaten, stomped and left for dead on June 8, 2005, by Pomie and two accomplices who attacked him for being gay.
"I'm happy," Prince said after the verdict, according to the Daily News. "But I still feel scared. I don't know if there are still guys out there." Prince, a former construction worker and fitness buff, was left partially paralyzed and unable to control trembling nerves, the paper reported.
Earlier in the week, Prince testified with a slurred voice that that his last memory was saying goodbye to his brother and the first one after it was waking up paralyzed in the hospital. Pomie, a 22-year-old ex-con, faces up to 25 years behind bars.
"Last summer's assault on Dwan Prince was probably the most vicious hate violence attack against our community last year, and Dwan and his family will live with the pain inflicted by Pomie's hatred for the rest of their lives," said Clarence Patton, the Anti-Violence Project's executive director, after the verdict was announced.
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