Police in Sioux Falls, South Dakota have identified two people wanted for questioning in connection to the assault of local resident, 27-year-old Drew Bartscher, KELO reports.

Bartscher, who is straight, was brutally attacked after he told a woman who called him and his friends “faggots” that she should not use that word. “It’s rude,” he said. Bartscher was then attacked by the woman’s boyfriend:

“Then I hear this guy yell at me, ‘What the F did you say to my girlfriend?!?!’  I turned just a little bit and then the next thing I know, my friends are picking me up off the sidewalk, (because) I had gotten punched pretty good,” Bartscher said.

Just hours after releasing photos to the media of two individuals wanted for questioning, police were able to identify both. However, it is not known “if the man or woman in the photos had anything to do with the assault or if they just saw what happened.”

KELO also points out that the incident has not gone unnoticed by local elected officials: “Mayor Mike Huether mentioned the attack in a recent news conference calling on the city to do more to fight domestic violence, bullying and prejudice.”