MESA, Ariz.—A police investigation is under way in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a 27-year-old Phoenix man told police he was punched in the jaw after leaving an establishment.

It’s the second such incident in Scottsdale since December.

Nicholas Gearing said he was walking early in the morning of July 16 with two friends in downtown Scottsdale. Gearing said he stopped to hug one friend goodbye when two men came around a corner and started hassling them.

The men began yelling anti-gay remarks. Gearing said.

They followed Gearing’s friend to his car and that’s when Gearing said he yelled at the men in an effort to stop them. Instead, the men approached Gearing’s car and began kicking it and one punched through the back window.

Gearing said he rolled down a window to tell them he was calling police. The man who broke the window punched Gearing in the jaw, he said.