This is a bit extreme.
It wasn’t just regular hot water from the tap, it was scalding hot water that left the gay couple with severe burns.
A young couple is recovering from severe burns after police say a man threw burning water on them — because they are gay.
“The pain doesn’t let you sleep. It’s just, like, it’s excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn’t go anywhere,” Marquez Tolbert said. “It doesn’t dial down, anything. It’s just there.”
Tolbert believes that the second and third-degree burns along his neck, back and arms are scars of hate.
“Why else would you pour boiling hot water on somebody?” Tolbert asked.
The 21-year-old and his boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, were severely burned last month when the men say Gooden’s mother’s boyfriend walked in on them sleeping in Gooden’s College Park apartment and poured scalding water all over them.
Martin Blackwell told police he didn’t like “all that gay stuff” in the house (for the record he doesn’t even live there) and it was just a little water.
He is still in jail.
Flip the page to see the gay couple speak on the experience.