A man will spend 10 years in prison for stabbing two people in Bushwick during an unprovoked homophobic attack.
Christopher Clemente, a 38-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant resident was sentenced on Wednesday to a decade behind bars, along with five years’ post-release supervision, for the hate crime after he had pled guilty last month.
According to investigators, Clemente and an alleged accomplice approached the two male victims, aged 36 and 29, inside a Bushwick bodega at 1559 Broadway just after 2 a.m. in September of 2021, before launching into an anti-gay rant directed at the two men.
The younger of the two victims is not gay, but the attackers apparently believed that the two men were a couple.
At one point, one of the attackers yelled, “I know you’re not coming out here. I don’t f*** with f****ts.”
“I don’t f**k with f***ts. I’m going to kill you guys,” the suspect allegedly told the victims. “I don’t f**k with that gay s**t.”
The situation escalated soon after when Clemente punched the elder victim, a former marine, in the face, and his alleged partner-in-crime, Jonathan Carter, smashed a glass liquor bottle over the victim’s head.
Both alleged attackers didn’t let up, and kept assaulting the 36-year-old while he was defenseless on the floor — before Clemente ultimately stabbed the man multiple times in his head and body, according to District Attorney Eric Gonzaelz’s office.
Soon after, the attackers approached the 29-year-old victim, before Clemente stabbed him as well multiple times.
At no point during the incident did the suspects’ homophobic slurs subside.
Both suspects allegedly took cash and other valuables from the victims, before fleeing the scene prior to cops arriving, according to previous reporting by Brooklyn Paper. They were both later tracked down and arrested.
Paramedics rushed both victims to a nearby hospitals with multiple stab wounds.
The elder victim suffered a collapsed left lung, while…
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