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A Michigan woman was attacked to death by three unknown men who had seen her marrying another woman a TV news report during the brief time gay marriage was allowed in the state last month.

The three men abused the 28-year-old woman and beat her unconscious. Police is investigating the vicious, unprovoked assault as a hate crime.

“One of the males stated, ‘Hey b----. Are you that (anti-gay slur) from the news?’ One of the males then punched her in the face, which knocked her to the ground and unconscious,” the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. After that she woke back up and was then kicked in the chest by one of the men. The three fled the scene after that.

The unidentified woman had just gotten off a bus in Ypsilanti Township, outside Ann Arbor, and was walking through a parking lot at the Roundtree Apartments around 6 p.m. when the three goons assaulted her.

One of the men was described as a white man in his 20s, almost 6-feet tall and heavyset, with a low or husky voice, according to the Free Press. The woman failed to identify the other two.

“She had obvious visual injuries,” Sgt. Geoffrey Fox told the Free Press. “She had injuries to her eye and around her eye. It was swollen and she had fresh injuries on her arms and on her torso. The injuries matched exactly what she said had happened. There’s no reason for us not to believe her and we’ll proceed with the investigation. Everything we see matches what she said.”

The woman, who requested police to keep her identity under wraps, was featured on a newscast getting married after a gay marriage ban was briefly relaxed on March 22 after a federal court decision.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury