Three more Salisbury University students have been arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in a hate crime against a man on Oct. 15, Salisbury police said Thursday.
In a Facebook news release, police confirmed the additional arrests along with the identities of the three students: Sean Antone, 19, of West Friendship; Benjamin Brandenburg, 19, of Glyndon; and Logan Clark, 19, of Severna Park.
The three men have been charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, false imprisonment and hate crime offenses, police said. Antone was taken into custody by the Howard County Police Department on Nov. 7.
The arrests mean that 15 students so far have been arrested in connection to the attack.
The alleged hate crime took place in an off-campus apartment in the 1400 block of University Terrace, where the group used the LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr to lure the victim “under false pretenses,” according to police.
The victim said he did not call the police after the assault because he was “in fear of his safety due to retaliation and being threatened by the attackers,” according to charging documents.
Charging documents say the victim was forced onto a chair and then recorded while being assaulted. At one point the victim was made to read a weather report from a notebook. During the alleged assault, the victim was called anti-gay slurs.
In response to the arrests, Salisbury placed at least 12 of the students on interim suspension, which is “the most severe form of discipline possible until the outcome of the criminal investigation,” Rhodes said in a Nov. 7 email. Under interim suspension, a student is no longer permitted in class, in-person or online, in their residence hall or on any university property.
A fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, expelled the students in their organization who are accused of being involved in the alleged hate crime incident, a spokesperson for the national organization said Monday.
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