November 8, 2011
A Deadly Fourth of July
On the night of July 4, 1991, ten teenage boys drove from northern Houston to Woodlands Texas looking for someone to hurt. Jaime Aguirre, Derrick Attard, Javier Aguirre, Jon Buice, Rafael Gonzales, Chance Paul Dillon, Leandro Ramirez, Gayland Randle, Jeffrey Valentine and Brian Spake decided to spend their Fourth of July cruising for homosexuals to hurt. Their hatred for the gay lifestyle fueled with their youthful ignorance was a deadly combination. Seven of the boys where under the age of 17 with the oldest being 22 at the time of the incident.
Paul Broussard and two of his friends were walking across the parking lot at 2 am on the Fourth of July when the ten boys brutally attacked the men. Previously, the boys had stopped the group of friends just a few blocks before asking for directions. The juveniles assaulted the three gay men with nail-studded two-by-fours, steel-toed boats and a knife. As the attacks where underway, the boys cheered in excitement. Broussard’s two friends were able to get away from their attackers but Paul was not so lucky. He suffered a broken rib, abrasions, puncture wounds, bruised testicles and three stab wounds. Before leaving Paul Broussard to die, two of the boys went through his pockets and took Paul’s comb as a souvenir of their deadly conquest. Paul Broussard died eight and half-hours later.
The Woodlands lawyers where able to convict all ten of the boys even if family members and supporters of Paul Broussard were not pleased with the length of incarceration.
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