Brooklyn man gets 10 years in bodega anti-gay stabbing

BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A Brooklyn man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years behind bars for an anti-gay attack at a Bushwick bodega, officials said. 

The victims, 36 and 29, were waiting for food in a bodega on Broadway on Sept. 4, 2021 when Christopher Clemente made a series of homophobic slurs, prosecutors said.  Jonathan Carter, who has not yet been tried, allegedly joined in. 

Clemente, now 38, repeatedly punched the order victim in the face, officials said. Carter allegedly hit the victim in the head and body with a glass liquor bottle, knocking him to the ground. Clemente then repeatedly stabbed the victim in the head and body.