Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Gay tourist shot in Puerto Vallarta while holding hands with Husband

A tourist was shot and injured early Saturday while walking through Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in what he and his husband are calling a hate crime.

At about 2:30 a.m., returning home after an evening of dancing at a local nightclub, Carl Blea and Marc Lange were holding hands and walking to the condo where they were staying, Lange said. Walking through Lázaro Cárdenas Park, a man standing nearby yelled something at them. Blea then noticed the man pull out a gun and tried to get himself and Lange to safety.

The bullet struck Blea below his . . .

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