On Sunday, David Ritcheson jumped to his death from the deck of a cruise ship. He killed himself after surviving one of the most brutal and repugnant hate crimes in recent memory:
Ritcheson’s death comes less than three months after he testified before Congress about how two teens nearly killed him on April 23, 2006, by repeatedly kicking a patio umbrella stand into his rectum while shouting “white power!” Spring Teen who Survived Pipe Attack Dies after Leap from Cruise Ship – Bill Murphy, Paige Hewitt and Jennifer Leahy, Houston Chronicle …