>> julio ramirez. >> reporter: people in the queer community were marching, acc accusing new york policehe cases seriously because most of the victims were gay men. >> i think that people get targeted just because they're an opportunity to get robbed. >> reporter: police were telling them that the victims weren't just gay, and what police didn't say at first is that there was a group of thieves who they were trying to find. >> while the many members, or many victims in this case are part of the lgbtq ai community, the motive was for robbery. the motive was for monetary gain. >> reporter: then seven people died between april and december of last year. had you heard anything about these drugging deaths at the nightclubs in new york city before this point? >> no. we hadn't. i don't know if katie had. >> reporter: it was something completely foreign to you? >> yeah, shocking. well, it just shattered my life. i mean -- >> reporter: one of them was 36-year-old katie gallagher, who was not gay. she was an up and coming fashion designer, who police now say was drugged outside her apartment in wh