By: Laura Meyers
Three musicians in Sacramento were the victims of a skinny jean hate crime this week.
The men were attacked by Timothy Brownell, 25, and were stabbed multiple times while Brownell cursed homophobic slurs at them for walking down the sidewalk in skinny jeans.
“Nothing was done to provoke this,” said Alex Lyman, one of the men injured in the attack.
Lyman and Weston Richmond, who was also injured, are guitarists in the Sacramento-area rock band Slaves. Blake Abbey, the third musician injured, is the lead singer of another Sacramento band, Musical Charis.
Richmond suffered a broken arm and minor cuts.
Abbey described one of his injuries as a 4-inch cut that narrowly missed his spleen. He also suffered cuts on his throat and arms.
Brownell eventually turned himself in on Tuesday evening after the attack on Sunday.
He was initially arrested after the attack on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and possessing a firearm, but was released on bond. Police then issued a warrant for his arrest on Monday when the attack was reclassified as a hate crime.
“This man literally did all this cause we wear skinny jeans…. What a jerk,” Richmond said in an Instagram post.
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