Arrests Made in Connection to NYC Gay Bar Killings and Robberies.

Jayqwan Hamilton, a leader of a gang that committed a series of robberies and killings at Manhattan gay bars, has been arrested and charged with murder, grand larceny, and other crimes in connection with the killings of two men who were drugged at bars in Manhattan, robbed using facial recognition technology on their phones, and later found dead of overdoses. The motive for the killings was financial, but the murders nevertheless terrorized the city’s LGBTQ population, for whom a small number of well-known bars often function as de facto community centers.