"Fifty-seven-year-old Alvin Prasad exited the Badlands nightclub with his adult daughter and friends, enjoying a Halloween night out in Lavender Heights, Sacramento's LGBTQ+ district. But as they walked towards their car, a man approached Prasad and insulted his flamboyant costume. "He calls my dad weird," Prasad's daughter Andrea told KXTV. "He says it in a very rude, aggressive way... like he wants to hurt my dad.""
"Prasad - who was dressed in 18th-century coat and hat, with knee-high platform boots, a pink wig and large white wings strapped to his back - tried to speak with the man. But the man punched Prasad in the forehead, causing him to fall backward and strike his head on the pavement. "He's lying flat on his back, and he's, for lack of a better expression, he's breathing like a fish out of water," family friend Jonathon Wisinski said."
Alvin Prasad, 57, was assaulted after leaving the Badlands nightclub in Sacramento's Lavender Heights while wearing an 18th-century coat, hat, platform boots, a pink wig, and white wings. A man approached and insulted his flamboyant costume, then punched him in the forehead, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement. Prasad was found seizing and bleeding from the back of his head and remains hospitalized in a coma with permanent damage to the front and back of his brain. Suspect Sean Wesley Payton Jr., 24, was arrested, charged with assault likely to cause great bodily injury, a hate-crime allegation, and resisting arrest, pleaded not guilty, and is jailed without bail pending a January 30 hearing. Family members say Prasad can no longer express himself or return to previous activities like dancing.
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