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NEW YORK -- Shocking video has surfaced in connection with an apparent hate crime that has left an openly gay man hospitalized in a medically induced coma.
In the video, you can see the two attackers beat 49-year-old Jack Price as he was leaving a 24-hour corner deli near his home on College Point Blvd.
The suspects reportedly taunted Price and hurled anti-gay slurs at him before assaulting him.
One of the suspects - identified as 26-year-old Daniel Aleman - was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime.
Police are still on the hunt for a second suspect identified as Daniel Rodriguez, 21, of College Point.
Price remains on a respirator at New York hospital.
He suffered a fractured jaw, ribs and a lacerated spleen.
The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
In the video, you can see the two attackers beat 49-year-old Jack Price as he was leaving a 24-hour corner deli near his home on College Point Blvd.
The suspects reportedly taunted Price and hurled anti-gay slurs at him before assaulting him.
One of the suspects - identified as 26-year-old Daniel Aleman - was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime.
Police are still on the hunt for a second suspect identified as Daniel Rodriguez, 21, of College Point.
Price remains on a respirator at New York hospital.
He suffered a fractured jaw, ribs and a lacerated spleen.
The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident.
