I don't know if it's a hoax or not, but it smells funny. Destinie doesn't have her picture in the school paper, so how would the assailants know what she looked like? Well, according to other articles, Destinie was wearing a sweatshirt with the name of the school newspaper on it. A young couple approaches her in a parking lot. The man apparently sees the sweatshirt, and asks if she works for the school paper. She says yes. He then asks if she wrote the gay marriage article. She says yes. The woman then punches her. A bit contrived, but certainly possible. By the way, here's the
editorial You'll see she doesn't have much of a future in journalism- or any kind of writing, for that matter.