Paul Broussard

Paul Broussard (1964–1991), a 27 year-old Houston-area banker and Texas A&M alumnus, was beaten
and stabbed to death in a gay-bashing outside a Houston nightclub on July 4, 1991 by ten teenaged
boys. The youths had driven from the northern Houston suburb of The Woodlands to the heavily gay
area of Montrose solely to "beat up some queers," in the words of one of the convicted teens.
Paul Broussard was walking across a parking lot just after 2:00 a.m., on July 4, 1991, in Houston's
Montrose neighborhood with his friends Cary Anderson and Richard Delaunay when the trio was attacked
by 10 young men from the Woodlands area: Jaime Aguirre, Javier Aguirre, Derrick Attard, Jon Buice,
Paul Dillon, Raphael Gonzalez, Gayland Randall, Leandro Ramirez, Brian Spake, and Jeffrey
Valentine.
All but three of the attackers were under 17, and the eldest of them—Chance Dillon—was 22. All
except Dillon attended McCullough High School in Houston. The Woodland Ten, as they became known,
had spent the two days prior to the attack binging on alcohol. Hours before the attack, they piled
into two cars and cruised Montrose harassing men they presumed to be gay. They identified their
targets by asking directions to Heaven, a popular area gay bar and threw rocks at men who answered
with directions.
Broussard and friends were just blocks away from home when the attackers asked them for directions
to Heaven. Upon receiving them, the 10 attackers exited their vehicles attacked the three gay men
with fists, steel-toed boots, nail-studhttp://www.gonetoosoon.org/create_memorial/details/ded
two-by-fours, and a knife wielded by Jon Buice. Anderson and Delaunay escaped down a busy street,
while Broussard headed down a dead end street where he was surrounded by the 10 attackers.
Delaunay said the ten young men were cheering and yelling as they attacked Broussard. Broussard
suffered abrasions, puncture wounds, a broken rib, bruised testicles, and three stab wounds. As he
lay on the ground, almost unconscious, two of his attackers rifled through his pockets and took a
comb as a souvenir. The ten young men then drove off up I-45 towards the Woodlands, still cheering
and yelling.
Broussard was treated by EMS at the scene, and then airlifted to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he
died eight-and-a-half hours later.