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Four decades after Maine resident Charlie Howard was killed, the Bangor community gathered to honor his life and legacy. In the summer of 1984, Howard and his boyfriend were walking down a main road in town when a group of teenagers yelling homophobic slurs approached them. They threw Howard, then 23, off a bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, where he died by drowning. The teenage suspects, all minors, were initially charged with murder, but the charges were eventually reduced to manslaughter, ac…
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