This story, as written, sounds like a horrible hate crime.
The thing is that I happen to remember just two weeks ago, the last time Tim posted a different story about an anti-gay hate crime murder, a story that also sounded like a horrible hate crime, that story was a lie. The media told us the dude was stabbed while dancing and he was trying to calm the situation. In that case, politicians, the media and Tim all lied to us. When video emerged showing the angry gay guy was chasing the teenager through a gas station, moments before he was stabbed, Tim still stuck with that story anyways. So his credibility on the matter is really dubious.
The politician, the media, and Tim are all willing to lies about anti-gay hate. We've seen this a dozen times, Jussie Smollet and Bubba Wallace and pretty much every single instance of a campus hate that makes the national news. In the two most disturbing instances anti-gay hatred violence, the gay night clubs that got shot up in Colorado in 2022 and Florida in 2016, both times the perps turned out to be gay themselves. Then there is the most famous clear-cut case of anti-gay violence that led to all the hate crime legislation in the first case, Matthew Sheppard, turns out to be more cloudy than we'd previously known. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard
So that takes us here.
Here we have another story that sounds like a hate crime in the media, may well be, but we know the media lies because they badly want an actual anti-gay hate crime. Since we've got a dead person with an LGBTQ flag, therefore it's anti-gay hate. And maybe it is. Have they actually found a real victim this time? Let's see what happens.