Police ‘very close’ to arrests

LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, September 26, 2008

Police homicide detectives said they were “very close” this week to arresting one or more suspects in the murder of Tony Randolph Hunter, a gay Maryland man who died after he was attacked near a D.C. gay club.

Assistant D.C. Police Chief Diane Grooms said Monday before a meeting of Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) that investigators were “very close to closing” the case.

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Hunter died Sept. 17, 10 days after four men attacked him near BeBar.

Grooms and acting Lt. Brett Parson, director of the department’s Special Liaison Units, including the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, said at the GLOV meeting that police officers stationed near the scene of the Sept. 7 attack against Hunter and his friend, Trevor Carter, saw the attackers fleeing the scene from about one block away.

Grooms and Parson said they could not disclose additional details of the investigation, but noted they were hopeful that arrests would be made soon.