Twelve students at Salisbury University in Maryland have been charged with hate crimes after they allegedly targeted a man over his sexual orientation by inviting him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him and used derogatory names,

The 12 men face charges including first-degree assault and hate crime after an alleged beating off the campus of Salisbury University.

A dozen Salisbury University students, all members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, have been arrested on hate crime charges in the brutal assault of a gay man.