Gay Indianapolis Student Expelled for Stun Gun is Attacked at Mall

More problems for Darnell Young—seen at left with his twin brother Darell—the openly gay Indianapolis high school student who was expelled for carrying a stun gun to scare away bullies. The 17-year-old boy was attacked at a local mall and struck in the face by a man twice his age, reports the Indianapolis Star.

According to court documents, [Khyran R. Delay, 34] told mall security officers that he recognized 17-year-old Darnell "Dynasty" Young from news coverage of his story and tried to talk to Young about it. He said Young got in his face and that he pushed Young.

Young and Donald Richardson, a janitor who witnessed the incident, told police that when Young walked past Delay’s table in the food court, Delay told Young to get away from him and used homophobic slurs. They said that Delay pushed Young and then hit him in the face, according to court documents. Richardson said he radioed for mall security, and then Delay came toward him because he was mad that Richardson had called security. Security officers arrived and detained Delay.

Delay has been charged with misdemeanor battery. He is being held at the the Marion County Jail pending a Wednesday bond hearing.

Young says classmates at Arsenal Technical HS relentlessly bullied him ever since he arrived in October from Arizona—taunting him, calling him names, following him home and even throwing rocks at him. On 16 April, Young eventually fired a stun gun into the air to scare off a group of six kids who used gay slurs and threatened to attack him. Young was suspended and remained out of school until his expulsion on 8 May.

Young and his mother said they told the school about the bullying "more than 10 times"—but the school only formally investigated one complaint. The stun gun was given to him by his mother, who says school authorities were not helpful and told Darnell to "tone down" his accessories and mannerisms. But she said she doesn’t regret her choice.

It takes a real big man to beat down a gay teenager that is half his age. Sure, it gets better—but when?

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Comments

[sonofbaldwin]

This is absolutely DISGUSTING.

[Zambos27]

It really is. What a pathetic POS Delay is.

[LightSkinBruh]

I'm sick of this and I blame society for this. Homosexuality has been taboo for soooo many years that now in 2012 people are having the hardest time accepting something that has absolutely NOTHING to do with them. Does it really matter to someone who is "straight" who the person sitting next to chooses to sleep with? Does it take food from your table? Does it shorten your 40 a week check? I just cant understand WHY sexuality even matters....No one says ANYTHING about the adulterer, no one says anything about the women who are abused by their husbands (and vice versa), no one says anything about how our educational system is lower than other first world countries, yet when it comes to homosexuality people are ready to kick and scratch and fight and kill. I JUST DONT GET IT and Im so angry with this situation and the double standard nation we live in full of hatred toward the wrong individuals.

[MW09]

UNACCEPTABLE. I'm just appalled at this vicious and pathetic act.

I want Darrell to stay strong! You're a wonderful young man! Those homophobic bullies are the problem NOT you.

[Mel Smith]

A 34-year-old attacking a 17-year-old???

[Jerry]

I hope Darnell and his mother get a lawyer and sue that school. The kids at that school thought they could keep hurting Darnell with impunity and so they could have their inhumane fun. And the man who attacked Darnell should be punished too or maybe get attacked and beaten so he knows what it feels like. NO MORE MR. NICE GAY.

[Nathan James]

You can always tell who the "normal, well-adjusted, socially acceptable" people are--they're the ones beating the daylights out of us gays. Darnell and his mother need to sue the school board, every teacher who ignored this bullying, and the cowardly principal who chose not to enforce the rules against the kids who were making Darnell's life a living hell.

Oh, that those who condone or ignore bullying could be made to spend just one day in the shoes of a bullying victim...

[Larry]

I hate coming to this site just because of stories like this. It's too real. But then I'm thankful for this site because I wouldn't know this was all going on otherwise.

This story breaks my heart and it only seems to be getting worse. I'm glad bullying is getting more of the spotlight than ever but with all of the attention, where is the change?

[Kelvin J]

See, this irks me to no end. Why is a 34 year-old grown stanking man pressed about a 17 year-old? What type of mental issues (and social issues) does a grown man have to possess to bother a child about his sexuality? I just can't...

[alicia banks]

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