N.H.student arrested in beating death
■The victim wasaleaderofa
gay campus group.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - A fellow
Gallaudet University student was
charged Tuesday in the beating
death of a freshman who was
deaf, had cerebral palsy and was
a leader of a gay campus group.
Police arrested Thomas
Minch, 18, of Greenland, N.H.,
also a freshman at the nation's
only university for the deaf and
hearing-impaired. He was
charged with second-degree
murder in the death of Eric
Franklin Plunkett, 19.
Police said the men had a
personal dispute that erupted in
a physical fight that led to
Plunkett’s death.
Plunkett was found in his
dormitory room Thursday night
after a student had asked a
school official to check on him
when he had not been seen for
more than a day. Police say
Plunkett appeared to have died
of blows to the head.
A police spokesman, Sgt. Joe
Gentile, said police were examin
ing a chair that was in the dorm
room as a possible murder
weapon.
Police also won’t discuss
motive in the slaying or whether
Plunkett's involvement in a cam
pus gay group was a factor.
Plunkett, a freshman from
Burnsville, Minn., was secretary
of the Lambda Society, a gay and
lesbian organization of about 20
students. Police have said all
along that they were not investi
gating the killing as a hate crime.
Nevertheless, students have
expressed concerns about a
recent increase in anti-gay activ
ities on campus. Several gay stu
dents were targets of disparaging
comments in the days before
Plunkett’s death, and anti-gay
slurs have been found on memo
boards, according to the Human
Rights Campaign, a gay and les
bian political organization that
met Monday with five students
and faculty members at
Gallaudet.
Gallaudet was established by
Congress in 1864 and is the
nation’s only liberal arts universi
ty for the deaf and hearing
impaired. It has about 2,000 stu
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