Elliot Morales

A few blocks from Stonewall Inn, David Morales accused two men of looking like “gay wrestlers” before shooting one in the face.

Jurors will begin deliberations Tuesday in the case against Elliot Morales, who is charged with murder as a hate crime and weapons possession in the shooting death of Mark Carson on May 18, 2013.

“I don’t hate anyone. Not gays, lesbians, none of that.”

“You could have avoided all of this from escalating to the level it did if you and Mr. Carson just went along with your own business.”

The former convict accused of fatally shooting a gay man in New York City’s West Village in 2013 will represent himself at trial.

NEW YORK — A judge in New York on Tuesday ordered a psychiatric evaluation of the suspect charged with murdering a gay man in New York City’s Greenwich Village in what authorities say was an anti-gay hate crime.

NEW YORK — A man accused of fatally shooting a gay man walking with a companion in New York City’s Greenwich Village afterward claimed that he opened fire because the victim “thought he was tough in front of his bitch,” prosecutors said in court papers Tuesday.

NEW YORK — The attorney for the man accused in the murder of a gay man in New York’s Greenwich Village on Saturday says his client is not guilty, and implied that his anti-gay bias is the result of being sexually abused as a child.