UPDATE::NYPD Arrests Suspect in Attack on Couple Wed at West Point | Advocate.com

Police in New York City say they’ve arrested a man in connection with the hate-crime attack on the first gay couple to be married at West Point, two graduates of the military school who showed they haven’t forgetten their boxing classes.

Thomas Clabough, 57, of Queens was to face a judge Wednesday on charges of assault and attempted assault as a hate crime.

Police say on August 2, the suspect entered a deli on Prince Street in lower Manhattan to buy a beer and saw Daniel and Larry Lennox-Choate.

As The Advocate reported last week, Clabough allegedly began yelling antigay slurs at the pair, then sucker-punched Daniel in the face. That's when Larry took action.

NYPD Arrests Suspect in Attack on Couple Wed at West Point | Advocate.com

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The first male couple to marry at West Point were in a Manhattan bodega in the upscale neighborhood of SoHo on Sunday when one of them was physically attacked by a man they say threw the first punch.

"It's hard to believe that in 2015 we would have to deal with anti-gay hate crimes in soho of all places but that's what happened today," Larry Lennox-Choate III wrote on Facebook.

An unidentified man about 40-years old "screamed anti-gay obscenities" at the couple then punched Larry's husband, Daniel Lennox-Choate, in the face.

"The guy who screamed anti-gay obscenities at us in a bodega before sucker-punching Danny?," Larry, who graduated West Point in 2009, explains, "He left covered in his own blood with his tail between his legs after I handled the situation and tossed him in the street like the coward loser he is."

"The hate crimes division of the NYPD is on the case and we have full faith a positive outcome will follow," Larry adds. "We refuse to be victims and are thankful we can defend ourselves, but are saddened by the fact that idiots like this guy might not pick two guys who went through Plebe Boxing next time."

Violent NYC Homophobe Picks Married West Point Gay Grads To Attack, Loses - The New Civil Rights Movement