Dane Hall was leaving Club Sound late on Friday night.

The 20-year-old had had a typical, fun time at the club’s gay-themed night and decided he’d take his usual stroll to his house, which is within walking distance of the club at 200 South and 600 West.

That’s when he said he heard a gay slur shouted in his direction.

The openly gay man glanced back quickly but kept walking.

A few moments later, he said, someone punched him in the back of the head.

He was knocked to the ground. Four men loomed over him. One picked him up by the front of his shirt and punched him several times in the left side of his face.

He was again knocked back to the ground.

One of his assailants rolled his head, placing his right cheek against the curb.

Realizing he was about to be "curb checked," Hall said he retreated into his own mind.

The man stomped on the side of the Hall’s head.

Hall, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall and 150 pounds, had his jaw fractured in three places, and a chip of his jawbone jammed into his brain. His cheekbone also shattered and he lost six teeth.

Hall managed to get up after the attack, which Hall estimates lasted less than a minute. He walked toward a police officer and a medical crew that was about a half-block away. He said the police were busy working on something else and didn’t get any information from him. Hall persuaded the medics not to call an ambulance.

"I knew I didn’t have any money for a doctor," Hall said through a wired-shut jaw on the front porch of his Salt Lake City home.

Instead, two of his friends drove him to LDS Hospital.

There, they gave him a shot and he didn’t wake up until the next morning at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

He filed a report with police after he awoke, he said.