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Montgomery County police on Nov. 10 arrested two men for allegedly assaulting a married gay male couple outside a sports bar and restaurant in Olney, Md., on Oct. 22 in an incident listed as an anti-gay hate crime.

A police charging document says that at about 2:45 a.m. Jose Luis Ledesma-Chavez, 24, of Olney, walked over to where two gay men identified as Victim X and Victim Y were sitting at the bar at the Green Turtle Restaurant with a glass of water in his hand.

“Ledesma-Chavez walked up behind Victim X and poured the water on Victim X’s head, stating ‘enjoy that faggots,’” the charging document says.

It says Ledesma-Chavez then quickly exited the restaurant and joined a group of other men he had been with inside the establishment. Victim X and Victim Y and another person who had been with them, identified as Susan Gordon, immediately chased after Ledesma-Chavez, according to the charging document.

“A fight ensued which spilled outside to the front of the restaurant,” the charging document says. “Ledesma-Chavez tackled Victim X to the ground and repeatedly struck him about the head and face causing cuts, scrapes, and a black eye,” says the charging document.

The second man arrested in the incident, Hamdan Ibrahim Bibi Vincent, 24, of Beltsville, Md., struck Victim Y several times, kicking and stomping him, while Victim Y attempted to stop Ledesma-Chavez from hitting Victim X, the charging document says.

“Green Turtle security were attempting to break up the fight and separate everyone,” the charging document continues. “Eventually all parties were separated,” it says.

As Ledesma-Chavez, Vincent and the other men with them entered their cars to leave the scene Vincent “placed something over the license plate of one of their vehicles in an effort to elude identification,” the charging document says.

Minutes after the two suspects left the scene Montgomery County police and a fire department rescue vehicle arrived, and Victims X and Y were taken to Montgomery General Hospital and treated for non-life-threatening cuts, scrapes and bruises, the charging document says.

“It should be noted that surveillance cameras both inside and outside the restaurant captured the events,” the charging document says. It says police investigators identified Ledesma-Chavez as the suspect who poured water on Victim X’s head and assaulted Victim X from Green Turtle employees who knew him and from the video surveillance.

It says Vincent was identified from the video surveillance and credit card receipts from purchases at the restaurant.

According to the charging document, Ledesma-Chavez was charged with second-degree assault of Victim X and with a hate crime against Victim X due to Victim X’s sexual orientation.

Vincent was charged with second-degree assault against Victim Y.

“It should be noted that Victims X and Y are a married homosexual couple,” the charging document states.