Charles O. Howard (January 31, 1961 – July 7, 1984) was a resident of Bangor, Maine in 1984. As Howard and a male companion (Roy Ogden) were walking down the street, three underage juveniles began to harass Howard for being a homosexual. The youths chased the pair, yelling anti-homosexual epithets, until they caught Charlie Howard and threw him over the State Street Bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream, despite his pleas that he could not swim. He drowned, but his friend escaped and pulled a fire alarm. Charlie Howard's body was found by rescue workers several hours later.