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Suspect Arrested in "Top Chef" Gay Bashing Case

Posted Sep 14th 2007 11:40AM by TMZ Staff

matthew wall, josie smith-walaveNew details have emerged regarding the vicious attack on "Top Chef" contestant Josie Smith-Malave and her friends over Labor Day weekend. Nassau County police department reported that they've arrested Matthew W. Wall, 20, of Oregon, and charged him with second degree robbery and a bias crime. He was arraigned yesterday.

Police report that Wall, along with approximately twelve of his friends, were involved in a confrontation with Smith-Malave and three of her female friends. The altercation escalated when Wall and his posse allegedly began spitting and hitting the four women and making derogatory statements about their sexual orientation.

According to the police report, Wall "forcibly stole a video camera from one of the four, causing her to fall and injure her knee." The investigation is ongoing.

Smith-Malave appeared on the second season of "Top Chef" and was rejected in episode five.

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46. Who really cares? There's many other more serious crimes out there. See what happened with the Duke case when some jerfoff Nifong wanted publicity.

Amazing--if she was a white woman attacked by a group of black men--this wouldn't even make the paper

Posted at 2:50PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Ed Florida

47. What a total loser. Other people's sexual orientations should not matter to anyone. These women are just being who they are. Nothing wrong with that. Homophobes get over yourselves! This hygienically challenged young fool shouldn't be so concerned by a couple of lesbians. SO WHAT!
What he desperately needs to be concerned with is, that GIGANTIC WART on his dirty face. "Compound W removes the warts and that's good, good news"!!!! That TV commercial was funny.
Anyway - Check your local grocer for a bottle OK stinky dude?

Posted at 2:58PM on Sep 14th 2007 by 867- 5309

48. She barely got a scrape and maybe her and trhe ho's were being militant...TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

Posted at 3:29PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bush Lickers

49. Hope he doesn't drop the soap!

Posted at 3:03PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Stacy

50. TRASH!

Posted at 3:05PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bama

51. Dude - if Robert Plant finds out you are copying his style, he is going to kick your @$$.

Posted at 3:08PM on Sep 14th 2007 by jimmy paige

52. I am so sick of gay bashers, I hope this guy goes to prison and becomes some ones girl..rember every man is created equal. i am so glad they got this big shot

Posted at 3:10PM on Sep 14th 2007 by robert smith

53. 24. Isn't is a shame, that everytime someone is called what they are, lesbian, homosexual, or queer, it all of sudden is the leading story of the day. IF these 'victims' were actually physically attacked, that is one thing. However, if they were being taunted simply because of the their sexual preference, and the purported assailants were simply calling them what they are then so what. These deviants picked this life style. They are not gay--they are deviants. End of story.

Posted at 2:17PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bill

Bill, you are a moran. People do not choose to be gay, no more then if they choose to be black. They way you are born is the way you are. But, yet, YOU choose to be stupid! That you can change.

Posted at 3:10PM on Sep 14th 2007 by hello, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

54. 28. Prosecute him for his actual physical crime, not his opinion or his thoughts. So what if he thinks Homosexuals are fools; everybody should be able to live with that. Unless of course we start calling homosexuals opinion-phobes, which they truly are; aside from being so totally screwed up to begin with.

Posted at 2:30PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bill

Bill, Bill, Bill,
Once again, your stupid is showing.

Posted at 3:12PM on Sep 14th 2007 by hello, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

55. 37. DEVIANTS... GAYS ARE DEVIANT, HATE FILLED, HIPOCRITS.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH. AND ALL YOU HATE FILLED NUTS ARE LEAVING COMENTS FOR THIS KID TO BE KILLED? BEHEADED? STABBED? AND SHOT?
YOUR SICK FOR LEAVING COMMENTS OF DEATH TO THIS KID. WHERE'S YOU "LOVING", "CARING" HEARTS NOW?
ALLEGED ATTACKS, INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY!!!


Posted at 2:43PM on Sep 14th 2007 by J

Please, turn off your cap's, and use spell check.
Thank-you

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56. LMAO! He's bashing gays? He looks lite in the loafers to me!

Posted at 3:19PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Steve

57. let him go!!!! it was a political statement(at least that's what i'd be claiming). if the move to accept deviant life styles continues, eventually, we'll have to be tolerant of child molesters, and murderers, too. i know you're screaming,"those are actual crimes....being gay isn't." it should be.

Posted at 3:23PM on Sep 14th 2007 by steve

58. Why haven't we heard what the original confrontation was about? If I remember, this lady was quite a big time major bit#h during the show.
So you are all finding him guilty without a trial? Give us the facts Is that because he's a man?

Posted at 3:25PM on Sep 14th 2007 by nicky60

59. he looks girly to me. i bet the only thing he han't gone down on was the titanic.. put him away and his pigoted friends, too!!

Posted at 3:23PM on Sep 14th 2007 by billy

60. On behalf of MOST Oregonians, I would like to apologize. Seems like only the creeps from our state make the news. BTW, this jerk is NOT welcome back after his (hoped for) prison time!!

Posted at 3:29PM on Sep 14th 2007 by TBunni

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