BOSTON -- A Framingham man is scheduled to face charges Monday in connection with an assault in Boston's South End in which the assailants yelled derogatory comments about gays, police said.

Fabio Brandao, 28, was arrested Friday and charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Police were called to 375 Columbus Ave. at about 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 24, where the victims said they were assaulted by four Hispanic men who fled the scene in a white Honda.

The victims, three men and one woman, said that they were walking home when the car stopped alongside them and the passengers began to yell obscenities. Police said that the occupants of the car got out of the vehicle and began to assault the victims.

One victim said that he was struck and could not remember who hit him, a second victim suffered a gash above his right eye, a third victim said she was punched in the head and thrown to the ground and the fourth person was not physically injured. Two of the victims were transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Two of the victims said that the men who assaulted them yelled slurs at them while they were punching and kicking them.

"I haven't slept a full night since it happened," one victim said. "These guys started yelling, just these, like, homophobic slurs out their window."

"I am afraid to go out in my street in general now, let alone it be at night," another victim said.