Authorities allege John Kammrad, 19, and a juvenile boy made derogatory remarks about a woman’s sexual orientation during a May 13 incident that left the woman, Kady Grass, with multiple injuries.

Two cisgender males have been charged with hate crimes for making anti-gay comments to a 19-year-old lesbian, Kady Grass, before brutally attacking her in a Carpentersville, Illinois, McDonald’s ...

After stopping at a McDonald’s in Carpentersville, Illinois with her 13-year-old cousin after a choir concert, Grass says she went into the bathroom. When she came out, everything changed.

Grass said she was attacked because she is a lesbian. “I think hate crime is the most obvious charge,” Grass told McClatchy News on May 22 after initial charges were filed.

After stopping at a McDonald’s in Carpentersville, Illinois with her 13-year-old cousin after a choir concert, Grass says she went into the bathroom. When she came out, everything changed.

A pair passing by a woman at an Illinois McDonald’s made “derogatory remarks” toward her, then brutally attacked her, police said.

A woman was attacked by a pair making derogatory comments about her sexual orientation at an Illinois McDonald’s, police said. The woman was hospitalized.

After stopping at a McDonald’s in Carpentersville, Illinois with her 13-year-old cousin after a choir concert, Grass says she went into the bathroom. When she came out, everything changed.

Grass said she was attacked because she is a lesbian. “I think hate crime is the most obvious charge,” Grass told McClatchy News on May 22 after initial charges were filed.

Grass says the two suspects continued to make anti-gay slurs after she acknowledged she was a lesbian. “He got in my personal space, and the minor was talking about how we don’t need weapons ...