A man in Chicago faces hate crime charges after he beat and robbed a man in 2015 as he hailed a cab in the tiny Sheffield Neighbors neighborhood near DePaul University.
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Prosecutors on Saturday said Phillip Brown, 20, approached the victim near the intersection of Ashland and Fullerton avenues in late June 2015 and began uttering homophobic epithets before he began punching the man.
Brown stole the victim’s iPhone 6 and hopped a gate, running into a nearby apartment complex.