Teen Survivor of Hate Crime Attack at Texas Party Jumps From Cruise Ship, Dies
HOUSTON — A Texas teenager who testified before Congress in April about his horrific beating was killed Sunday when he leaped from the upper deck of a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico.
David Ritcheson, 18, of suburban Houston, was pronounced dead Sunday morning after being pulled aboard the Ecstasy, a 70,000-ton Carnival Cruise Lines ship en route to Cozumel, Mexico, from Galveston.
Ritcheson, a Mexican-American, was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole by two men shouting "White Power!" during a drug-fueled party in April 2006. He was hospitalized for more than three months and endured 20-30 painful surgeries in the months following the attack.
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Just makes me want to cry. How could someone do this to this to anyone? He was scarred enough to take his own life. I am vacillating between being angry and sad.
