NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – A victim of a teenager’s violent rampage in a New Bedford bar has filed a complaint with the state alleging he received poor treatment by paramedics because he is gay.

Robert R. Perry, 52, of Dartmouth, was struck in the head with a hatchet and shot in the back when 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida attacked patrons of Puzzles Lounge on Feb. 1. Two other men were injured in the attack.

In a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Perry says the New Bedford paramedics took too long transporting him to the hospital, were physically and verbally abusive, and shared private medical information with his family without his permission.

“There wasn’t just hatred in the bar that night,” Perry said. “We had hatred in the ambulance, too.”

“I don’t have a comment,” James Trout, director of New Bedford’s EMS Department, told The Standard-Times of New Bedford.

Perry said that as a director for clinical services for Mercy-General Ambulance Service in Boston, he knows the procedures paramedics are supposed to follow. For example, he said the 25 minutes the ambulance waited at the bar before heading to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford was too long.

“Twelve minutes on-scene for a gunshot victim in our system is considered a maximum,” Perry wrote in a letter to New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang.

The complaint was filed with the DPH’s Office of Emergency Medical Services. In it, Perry alleges the paramedic treating him slammed an oxygen mask over his face when he asked repeatedly why the ambulance was not leaving for the hospital.

In an e-mail response to Perry’s letter, Lang said the city is taking his complaint seriously, and that he forwarded a copy of the letter to the city’s acting police chief, David Provencher.

The Standard-Times reported that it has received copies of Perry’s letter to Lang, and another to state Attorney General Tom Reilly.

On Feb. 4, Gassville police officer Jim Sell, 63, was fatally wounded by Robida, who had fled from Massachusetts. Robida killed a passenger and then himself after he was pinned down by police after a 20-mile chase that followed Sell’s shooting.