A robber who uttered epithets as he beat a gay man in Oak Lawn laughed about the brutal assault in jail phone calls while awaiting trial and said he would pretend to be gay so authorities couldn’t say he attacked his victim because of his sexual orientation. Dallas County jurors convicted Bobby Singleton of aggravated robbery Wednesday and later heard the recordings of the phone call from jail during the punishment phase of his trial. “[I'll] say I’m a faggot, too,” Singleton said in the call to an unidentified woman. “Let ‘em prove I ain’t gay.”

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