Police Probe Threatening Letters Received By Long Island LGBT Group
BAY SHORE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Suffolk County police Thursday night were investigating after threatening letters was received by an LGBT service center in Bay Shore.
Hate Crimes Unit detectives were called in at 1:21 p.m. Thursday about a threatening letter at received by Long Island Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Services Network, police told CBS 2.
Police could not immediately provide further details. But a Newsday report said the group had received four letters over the past year and four months – and two letters on Thursday included threats to kill its leader and burn down a senior LGBT housing complex that was announced earlier this week.
All the letters were typed in boldface print and appeared to come from one source, group founder David Kilmnick told the newspaper. The first letter came just after the 2013 Long Island Pride Parade, the second after the parade this year, the newspaper reported.
The first letter last year threatened to turn the event into a local version of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the newspaper reported.
The latest letters came to the group's headquarters in Bay Shore and its other office in Woodbury, the newspaper reported.
Suffolk County police told CBS 2 they were investigating the other letters.
This past Tuesday, the Long Island GLBT Services Network announced a 50-unit senior housing complex for a site in Bay Shore.
The development would be the fifth in the country and the first in the Tri-State Area.
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