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NEW YORK — Authorities opened a homicide investigation Tuesday into a vicious attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant whose assailants shouted anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs, then beat him with a baseball bat and kicked him.
Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, was attacked as he walked arm in arm with his 38-year-old brother early Sunday in Brooklyn. He had been listed in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery at Elmhurst Hospital in neighboring Queens.
A law-enforcement official said Sucuzhanay had been declared brain dead and was taken off life support Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The three assailants were still being sought.
