'Get off the block.' Bronx man serving time at federal residential reentry program accused of attacking gay man
Shorai Moore, 31, was indicted on a hate crime charge for allegedly assaulting the man using his fists, a plastic crate and a recycling bin outside a deli on White Plains Road on April 1.
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Officials say a Bronx man who was serving time for narcotics trafficking at a Federal Bureau of Prisons residential reentry center is accused of attacking a gay man.
Shorai Moore, 31, was indicted on a hate crime charge for allegedly assaulting the man using his fists, a plastic crate and a recycling bin outside a deli on White Plains Road on April 1.
According to the indictment, Moore yelled anti-gay slurs and statements before the attack, including that gay people should "get off the block."
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI James Barnacle, Jr. and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced the unsealing of the indictment on Thursday.
"This defendant—who was already serving a federal sentence at a residential reentry facility—violently attacked a gay man based on the victim's sexual orientation," said Tisch. "Bias-motivated crimes tear at the fabric of society, and the NYPD will never tolerate hate of any kind in our city. I thank our NYPD investigators, our partners at the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District for their work in this case, for their efforts to bring this criminal to justice."
Moore will serve up to ten years behind bars if convicted.
