A New York man charged in the slaying of an Elmira, N.Y. gay man, told police he shot the man when — after having consensual sex with him — the victim put one hand on his shoulder and the other on his throat and threatened him.
Louis Duffy
Louis M. Duffy, 20, Horseheads, N.Y., was arraigned Wednesday on charges of second-degree murder in the May 1 shooting of Clinton “Billy” Lewis, owner of Club Chill, a gay bar across the street from his home. Duffy is also charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Duffy, who confessed to the murder, told police that the shooting occurred after the two men had consensual sex, the Elmira Star-Gazette reported.
“Bill told me (the sex) was going to happen again and again and he didn’t care how, he was just going to make sure it happened,” Duffy said in his sworn statement taken the same day as the killing.
“I told (him) ‘No it won’t’ and he grabbed me by the throat and had a hand on my shoulder,” Duffy said in the statement, which was taken by Elmira Police Investigator Patrick Fernan.
In a handwritten addition to the typed statement, Duffy said, “I pushed him off me and on to the bed and then reached for the gun and shot him.”
After the shooting, police said the motivation for the crime was personal, and not a hate crime.
“I just overreacted at the situation,” Duffy said in his statement to police. “The idea of shooting him just popped into my head, and I just did it.”
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Lock him up, please.
Face. Palm.
uhhh, just cause he’s in the closet and didn’t want to come out doesn’t mean you get rid of him by killing him.
Hmm…ok. Yeah I wanted to boof him. Then when he wanted it again, but a bit rougher, and I wasn’t in the mood, I decided to shoot him. Sounds perfectly logical to me. Well this boy will be quite popular in jail…and this time when he isn’t in the mood for round 2 he won’t have a choice. Big Bubba and his gang will do it anyway…I guess then he’ll have to get inventive with a Dixie cup and shank them or something.
That, my friends is internalized homophobia. Our culture kills.
Man.. That guys has a great lawyer… I bet it went down like this, the lawyer told him “You wanna come out of the closet?! Or be locked in one for life!!?.. And im not being metaphorical….(removes glasses slowly and intensely and stares him down)..
See I said it sounded like a case of DL SUPPOSED TO BE STRAIGHT GUY REMORSE!
PUT HIS ASS UNDER THE JAIL FOR LIFE!!!!__
I PRAY FOR HIS SOUL !!
if one person kills another out of hatred he should be put to death. sorry i am as liberal as they come but i believe that no matter who is killing nor who is being killed. Its just horrendous.
i hope he dies
it never said this guy was in the closet. I really don’t know why this is even being shared on here. One gay guy kills another gay guy after having sex? Don’t get me wrong, all murder is tragic, but seriously.
Wow. What a fucking closet case. So you went and did a “dirty deed” and instead of owning it, you blame the man you desired enough to fuck in the first place. If you can kill the man you fucked, then somehow you can kill the gay within. Rale smart, guy. Rale smart.
the fuck? was he gay or just desperate? and then killed him? fucktard deserves the death penalty!
homophobes are gay ppl in the closet they hate and beat gay ppl to look straight but its all frustration
???? his reasoning just sounds completely stupid. he will spent every day in prison as someone’s bioch.
Sad :(
He has some serious self-hatred issues…
This is sad :/ but hold your judgement, we don’t know their true story.
How is this 2nd degree and not 1st degree?
I’ll be waiting for more meat to give a proper opinion. I’ve met my share of gay club owners who use threats to get what they want, and they are not empty threats either. We still don’t know all the details of what happened here. Everybody is entitled to an impartial trial.
hmmm mskes me think black widow…
I think 1st degree has to be premeditated??
No matter what the sex issue between Billy and Duffy, it doesn’t excuse the fact that he was carrying a gun!! I hope when he goes to jail and is raped over, and over and can’t shoot anyone he remembers what he did to Billy!!
There’s more to this story than the media reveals. For instance, whose house were they in at the time when they had sex and when the shooting took place? Seems convenient the unsub lives across the street and just overreacts all of the sudden to a threat of repeated sex, after consenting in the first place? Something is really off with this case, especially with the headliner. Why is the unsub a “Man” but the club owner is defined as “Gay” when both had consensual sex?
PSYCO!!!
I know this guy (Duffy), went to school with him. I don’t recall him ever being homophobic, he certainly was a “tough guy” though. Nice guy and good friend though.
I love how most people are saying it’s a closet case. It’s an opinion, one you’re entitled to have, by all means. But it’s just that, there’s no facts to prove it. The information here provided in this article only says certain things.
-Duffy had sex with another man. He admits he had consensual sex. To my knowledge, and with the definition of closet case, that term does not apply. If he was a closet case, it seems that he would have denied it or claimed rape, rather than openly admit it.
-His statement says the other man grabbed him by the throat and shoulder and made a statement that could be taken as a threat. Now, this is his word only, so it can’t be taken as a fact, but people who claim he’s lying have no basis for that position as well. He’s already admitted to having sex with the man and killing him, rather than denying it, so he’s actually being more honest than not. Assuming he’s telling the truth, though, the victim was behaving in a threatening manner, so it would not be as if it was cold-blooded as some people may think.
So if you take both of those into consideration, this was more self-defense than anything. Was it a shame a man died? Yes. Does this appear to be a hate crime? No. I’m glad the police aren’t treating it as such, and I hope some people can see beyond jumping immediately to a conclusion, and look at evidence and facts instead.
To put it simply…if the situation had been reversed…and the club owner had shot and killed Duffy after consensual sex, and Duffy placing hands on him in a threatening manner and stating there would be more sex, against his will…everyone would be screaming self-defense, and that he was just defending himself against an obvious threat. Think about it. The double standard blinds most to the actual system.