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| Charles O. Howard (January 31, 1961 – July 7, 1984) |
Charles O. Howard (January 31, 1961 – July 7, 1984)
Charles O. Howard was an American hate-crime victim in Bangor, Maine in 1984. As Charles and a male companion, Roy Ogden, were walking down the street, three teenagers: Shawn Mabry-16, Jim Baines-15, and Daniel Ness-17, harassed Charles for being gay. The youths chased the pair, yelling homophobic epithets, until they caught Charles and threw him over the State Street Bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, despite his pleas that he could not swim. He drowned, but his friend escaped and pulled a fire alarm. Charlie Howard's body was found by rescue workers several hours later.
