Daniel Dano Fetty

1964 - 2004
LocationWaverly,ohio
Age39 years
Cause of DeathMurder
Date of Birth24/11/1964
Date of Death02/10/2004
Visitors454 since 25/10/2009
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Daniel Fetty (1966 - October 2, 2004) was a hearing-impaired, homeless gay man in Waverly, Ohio. On October 2, 2004, he was attacked by Martin Baxter, Matthew Ferman, and James Trent Jr. Fetty was beaten with bricks, bottles, boards, stripped naked and thrown into a dumpster. Fetty died in a hospital 12 hours after being found by police. His murder was prosecuted as a hate crime.
Daniel Fetty, 38, became homeless when his apartment was destroyed by fire. At the time he was attacked, Fetty was living in his car.
He had begun working at Emmitt House, a local bar and restaurant, to save money for a new apartment.
On Friday, October 2, 2004 Fetty went to the Canal Pub in Waverly, Ohio. Baxter, 28, and Ferman, 22, were there as well. Ferman got into an argument with Fetty, accusing Fetty of stealing a pack of cigarettes that he'd left on a table, with money stuck under the cellophane. Outside the bar, Ferman was nicer to Fetty, even offering to sell him some marijuana.
Once outside, Ferman led Fetty across the street, to a parking lot behind a building, where he hit Fetty over the head with a beer bottle.

Ferman later said that Trent hit Fetty with a stick after he fell to the ground. Trent, 19, later told police that he was walking by when he heard Baxter call to him. Baxter then showed him Fetty, nude and unconscious in the garbage bin, and jumped up and down on Fetty while Ferman poked him with a piece of wood.
Plea agreements for Ferman, Baxter, and Trent would ultimately prevent the details of the attack from being fully revealed in court. However, Fetty's mother – Juanita Meek – would speak at Baxter's plea hearing, and catalog her son's injuries
β€œYou put out both his eyes, broke his nose, knocked out his teeth, broke his Adam’s apple, broke his neck, broke all but one of his ribs and punctured his heart and lungs.”

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Not Homeless

My name is Erica Henry and Daniel and I were really good friends. He was a fun, loving, and caring man. He was fun to hang out with. He was homeless for quite sometime, but he moved in with me 3 days before he was killed. I will forever love and miss him. I miss you Daniel and I hope one day I can see you again.

Erica Henry

July 6, 2011

If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my heart with you,
So don't you ever cry.
The love that's deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You'll feel it from the heavens,
And it will heal the scars.

Jasmine Christian (Friend)

November 3, 2009

Not In Vain

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Jasmine Christian (Friend)

October 25, 2009
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