Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to two federal hate crimes for targeting LGBTQ people by attempting to run over 3 people with his car. The violent attacks occurred on two separate occasions in the Boise, Idaho, area. https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1669739932649238529 From the Justice Department:
According to court records, on Oct. 8, 2022, while at the Boise Public Library Main Branch in downtown Boise, Matthew Alan Lehigh, 31, approached a transgender library employee, called her a slur, punched her and threatened to stab her. A member of the library’s security staff intervened, and Lehigh fled into the parking lot.
When the security guard attempted to speak to Lehigh in the parking lot, Lehigh got into a car and suddenly accelerated it toward the guard, intending to collide with him. The guard narrowly escaped being struck by jumping behind a concrete barricade at the last moment, and Lehigh fled the scene.
Four days later, while sitting in his car in a public parking lot elsewhere in Boise, Lehigh saw two women walking together towards another vehicle. Assuming that the women were lesbians, Lehigh began shouting threats and slurs at them, then suddenly accelerated his car toward the women, intending to collide with them.
The women jumped out of the path of Lehigh’s oncoming car, which struck the other vehicle at significant speed.
On June 15, 2022, Lehigh pleaded guilty to one felony count of violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act for the vehicular assault on the library security guard, and a second felony violation for the vehicular assault on the two women.
Lehigh also admitted to setting fire to a rainbow Pride flag at a residence, breaking windows at a commercial building occupied by an LGBTQ organization, and punching a man at a grocery store after calling him an anti-LGBTQ slur. Following his release from prison, Lehigh will undergo three years of supervised release. https://twitter.com/MorganRomeroTV/status/1720195928165138721 (h/t JoeMyGod)
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