A 20-year-old Georgetown University student was arrested and charged with simple assault Thursday in an attack on a gay man, the latest in a series of hate crimes reported in the city this month, District of Columbia police said.

Police said Phillip Anderton Cooney, of Texas, and another man yelled anti-gay slurs at the victim early Sept. 9. The two men followed the victim for about a block to the 1400 block of 36th Street Northwest, and one of the men tackled the victim, striking him with a closed fist, police said.