Six Shot at Chicago Gay Party

Chicago police are investigating the shooting of six men at a party in a house on Chicago's South Side in what may have been a homophobic hate crime.

According to the police, two masked men burst into an apartment in the house early Sunday morning, spraying semi-automatic gunfire throughout the living room hitting six men.

Residents in the area say the apartment was rented by two gay men and was the scene of frequent loud parties. One neighbor told the Chicago Sun-Times that the building was known as the "Gay House".

"We always be seeing them, and they always be looking at people," Kevin Carter, 18, told the paper.

"They give you that gay look, like you're a female or something. That ain't cute. People be ready to fight. ... I knew something was going to happen to that house."

One partygoer who declined to give his name to the Sun-Times said that the gunmen "just busted through the door, and everything went haywire."