Anti-gay hate crime in Dallas Texas - Big Problems of Victim with eyes, Depression, Sense of Smell - Jimmy Lee Dean still recovering after 7 months

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Jimmy Lee Dean still recovering 7 months after brutal robbery

I wish I could report every Racial Hate Crime and every Anti-gay hate crime.
But there is a deluge of Hate Crimes in this Evil World and this is impossible.

At least there are honest and decent Policemen, Prosecutors and Distric Attorneys in this case.

Anti-gay hate crime in Dallas Texas
Big Problems of Victim with eyes, Depression, Sense of Smell

Trial to begin for suspect in Oak Lawn hate crime

DallasVoice.com

By John Wright News Editor
February 26, 2009

Jimmy Lee Dean still recovering 7 months after brutal robbery

Dean is shown in Photo two weeks after the attack.

Some excerpts :

Jimmy Lee Dean still hasn’t regained his sense of smell, and a procedure to straighten his drooping right eyelid was unsuccessful.

Dean, 43, is awaiting yet another surgery to repair and replace teeth, but perhaps the most devastating impact of the brutal gay-bashing he suffered seven months ago has been psychological.

Once a very active, fun-loving person, according to his friends, Dean said he now has little energy and suffers from depression.

“Anybody who’s been around me before and gets around me now is going to realize that I’m different,” Dean said recently.

Beginning Monday, March 2, one of two suspects accused of robbing Dean and beating him nearly to death on Dickason Avenue in Oak Lawn last July is scheduled to stand trial in Dallas County District Court.

Jonathan Russell Gunter, 32, is charged with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years in prison.

According to police reports, Gunter and 29-year-old Bobby Jack Singleton pistol-whipped Dean with a 9mm Glock handgun, then kicked and stomped his head, face and body as he lay motionless in the middle of the dimly lit street.

The attack, called the worst anti-gay hate crime in Dallas in recent memory, left Dean hospitalized for 10 days.

Gunter and Singleton, both of Garland, admitted to police they targeted Dean because they though it would be easier to rob a gay man. They also reportedly yelled anti-gay epithets before, during and after the attack, which occurred just a block from the Cedar Springs strip.

The Dallas Police Department classified the incident as a hate crime for FBI reporting purposes, but the District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the case as a hate crime because under Texas law, such a finding by a jury couldn’t result in enhanced sentences but could force a greater burden of proof on prosecutors.
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