BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: In the United States, a day after burying their son, the parents of a gay man are trying to come to terms with his brutal murder. The 26-year-old man was beaten to death and run over with a car in Grant Town, West Virginia. CNN's national correspondent Bob Franken is standing by live in nearby Fairmont with that story -- Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brian, it is the kind of thing that's not supposed to happen in the tiny backwoods communities out in the mountains around Fairmont here, but it has happened -- a very violent death. Arthur Carl Warren, known to his friends as "J.R.," on the very early morning of July 4 was beaten to death and then taken to an area where he was run over repeatedly by a car. There is a growing clamor to find out if, in fact, this was a hate crime. He was, as you pointed out, openly gay. He was African-American. And his grief- stricken parents have spoken to CNN and say they only want to know.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want someone, anybody to tell me what it was. Nobody tell me what it was. If it is not hate, then what is it? I don't understand, I just want somebody somewhere to tell me what it is.</s>FRANKEN: Now, three have confessed in this brutal murder. All three are underage, they are juveniles. Authorities say they have given no indication, that there is no evidence yet that this was a hate crime. And, Brian, there is a growing clamor in the community that these three, although they're just teenagers, be tried as adults -- Brian.</s>NELSON: All right, CNN's Bob Franken in Fairmont, West Virginia, thank you.
Parents of Gay W. Virginia Man Try to Come to Terms With His Brutal Murder