Jake Kelly officiated the wedding of Cory and Shannon Young, five months before police said their friend Angel Mullooly killed him. Police arrested a neo-Nazi skinhead, his wife and one other person on Friday in connection with the brutal beating death of a 49-year-old gay man at his North Phoenix home in August. Angel Mullooly, 34, was charged with second-degree murder, while Cory Young, 44, and his wife, 37-year-old Shannon Young, are accused of hindering the investigation, according to the Phoenix Police Department. The trio was arrested in connection with the Aug. 27 killing of Jake Kelly, in which police said Kelly was assaulted and left unresponsive in his driveway. According to Jan Kelly, Jake’s mother, Cory and Shannon Young were sharing a house with her son near Cave Creek Road and Union Hills Drive when he was attacked. Kelly told Phoenix New Times that Shannon Young called her at the time of the assault to tell her Jake was hurt. Young claimed that they found Jake outside their home, beaten to a pulp. Kelly said they then took her son inside, gave him a bath — supposedly to “revive him” — and waited until Aug. 28 — the next day — before taking him to a hospital. “They put him in the bathtub and tried to make him come to,” Kelly said Shannon Young told her. “And he wouldn’t come to. So, they took him back out of the bathtub, took his wet clothes off, put dry clothes on him, and took him to the emergency room.” Kelly, who lives in Texas, flew to Phoenix to be with her son after she learned of the attack. Kelly’s face was “completely pulverized” and had to be put back together by surgeons. Large gashes went down his arms, a “piece of his bowel had died,” and after yet another surgery, he contracted sepsis and went into a coma, according to his mother. “And then he wasn’t there anymore,” she said. “So, I just had them unplug him.” He died from his injuries on Sept. 8, police said.
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