BOSTON -- Boston police are investigating an attack on three gay men and a female acquaintance as a possible hate crime.
Authorities said the attack happened in the city's South End early Sunday. A police spokeswoman said no arrests have been made.
One victim told The Boston Globe that she and her friends were assaulted by four men yelling anti-gay slurs. The newspaper said the woman it identified as Jenna did not want her full name published because the alleged assailants have not been arrested.
The woman said she was punched in the face, and two of her friends were beaten, one suffering a severe scalp injury.
Jenna quickly grabbed her cell phone and called 911. When the operator picked up, she began screaming the license plate number into the phone.
Boston police have some leads in the case, including the license plate number and the cell phone of one of the attackers.
MassEquality, a gay rights group, called the attack a brutal hate crime.
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