Two young men, Arron Keahey and Brice Johnson met on the mobile app Meetme and decided to get together for sex. Or that’s what Keahey thought. Now Johnson, 19, faces federal hate crimes charges for beating Keahey within an inch of his life. “I invited this guy over, right, at first it was basically like a joke that went too far and too wrong,” Johnson told a relative in a jail house phone call. “I invited him over because he was a fag or whatever.” Here’s the story.
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