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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A suspect has been arrested and charged in an alleged anti-gay bias attack on a couple in Chelsea last month. 
  
 Alfonso Lanier, 23, was charged Tuesday with aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime, police said. 
  
 Police Tuesday were still looking for several more suspects. They released sketches of two of the suspects shortly after the attack. 
  
 The attack happened early on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, in the area of West 25th Street and Ninth Avenue, shortly after Peter Notman and Michael Felenchak left the Chelsea Bowtie Cinemas. 
  
 The two were walking down the street when two other men approached them yelling anti-gay slurs and then punched and kicked the victims repeatedly, police said. That’s when three or four more men joined in on the attack, police said. 
  
 “It was six of them against the two of us,” Notman said. “Typical of the cowards they are.” 
  
 Felenchak, 27, and Notman, 53, were able to use their cell phones to call police. The suspects fled on 9 Avenue in the direction of West 25 Street after the attack, police said. 
  
 The two were taken to Beth Israel Hospital and treated for their injuries. 
  
 “I was hit with brass knuckles down the side of my face,” Notman said. “I had contusions, had to have an MRI and Michael received several stitches in his mouth where they punched us.” 
  
 Felenchak ended up requiring a total of seven stitches. 
  
 “I was shocked this happened on the street I call home,” Notman said. “Unbelievable.” 
  
 The arrests Tuesday also came the same day a man was charged with murder as a hate crime in Queens. Steven Torres, 22, of the Bronx, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the death of 69-year-old Ever Orozco under the elevated 7 train tracks at Elmhurst and Roosevelt avenues. 
  
 Police said Torres confessed after claiming the victim was blowing kisses and making sexual advances. But authorities said there is no evidence to support those claims, CBS 2 reported. 
  
 Ever’s wife said her husband had dropped her off for a doctor’s appointment a few minutes before the fatal attack. 
  
 A rash of anti-gay attacks was plaguing the city only a few months ago. In the severest incident, Mark Carson, 32, was shot and killed on May 18 by a man who first called him and his partner “f***ots” and asked if they were “gay wrestlers,” police said. 
  
 Couples were attacked in at least two other incidents in May. 
  
 On May 5, Nick Porto and his partner, Kevin Atkins, were beaten near Madison Square Garden after a group of men wearing Knicks shirts called them anti-gay slurs. 
  
 Porto was among the speakers at a rally in Greenwich Village denouncing the attacks and calling for an end to the violence. 
  
 And early on May 10, two men tried to get into an after-hours billiards hall on West 32nd Street but were not let in, police said. They were then approached by a group of approximately five others who proceeded to shout anti-gay slurs and beat the men, police said. 
  
 Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visit the Crime Stoppers website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. 
  
 The search continued for more suspects Tuesday. 
  
 Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. 
  
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 Police are still looking for a second suspect 
  
 The victims were apparently holding hands at the time of the attack 
  
 A man who allegedly attacked two others last month because he perceived them as gay has been arrested. 
  
 Alfonso Lanier, 23, was charged Tuesday with aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime, the New York Police Department said. 
  
 Authorities are still looking for a second suspect. 
  
 The assault took place August 14 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The attackers used derogatory words about the victims' sexual orientations, New York Police Detective Marc Nell said. 
  
 "It makes me sick to my stomach," Michael Felenchak, one of the victims, told CNN affiliate WABC at the time. "It scares me. It upsets me. It's really awful." 
  
 Felenchak, 27, had to have multiple stitches on his chin and suffered scrapes across his stomach from the attack. 
  
 "First they punched me so hard, I feel brass knuckles," the other victim, Peter Nortman, 53, told WABC. "Then I fell on the floor, and I jumped back up and I got hit again. And then I tried to pull them down." 
  
 The attack brought New York community leaders together to raise awareness. 
  
 New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn handed out flyers to spread the word about what police called a hate crime attack. 
  
 "I am appalled by reports that two men were senselessly beaten in Chelsea simply because they were perceived to be gay," Quinn said. She said the pair were holding hands at the time of the attack. 
  
 It wasn't clear early Wednesday morning whether Lanier had retained a lawyer. |||||

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man following a group attack last month on a gay couple in Manhattan. Alfonso Lanier has been charged with hate crime assault and aggravated harassment, CBS New York reports, and police are still looking for fellow attackers. After Peter Notman and Michael Felenchak left a movie theater in Chelsea, two men began shouting anti-gay slurs before punching and kicking them, according to police. Several more people then teamed up with the attackers. "It was six of them against the two of us," says Notman. "I was hit with brass knuckles down the side of my face," he added. "I had contusions, had to have an MRI, and Michael received several stitches in his mouth where they punched us ... I was shocked this happened on the street I call home." The couple managed to call police and the attackers ran off. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and state Sen. Brad Hoylman condemned the attack, distributing flyers to raise awareness. "I am appalled by reports that two men were senselessly beaten in Chelsea simply because they were perceived to be gay," Quinn said, per CNN. The attack came amid a spate of violence against gay people in the city over the summer; CBS recounts the details. Another random—and fatal—attack is being treated as a hate crime.