Carl Blea, a gay man from Palm Springs, was shot while holding hands with his husband, Marc Lange, while the couple was on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and they are calling the incident a hate crime.
As per the Desert Sun, the pair was returning from a night out at 2:30 AM and walking to their condo when a man yelled something at them. Blea noticed the unidentified suspect, who had a tattoo on his face, when he shot a bullet at the real-estate agent in his buttocks. It exited through his thigh. Unfortunately for the pair, the authorities were not cooperative after the incident and have since tried to downplay it as an attempted robbery. However, that's now how Blea and Lange recall the story and they are willing to set the story straight.
"This was not a robbery went bad. It was a hate crime as Carl Blea and I were walking hand in hand," Lange wrote on his Facebook about the incident. "We never spoke to the man who shot us. He yelled at us and then pulled out a gun and shot at us. This is not correct. We told 3 different set of police officials the same story. There were no witnesses, the street was empty."
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