The two young men and one woman charged with beating up a gay couple in Philadelphia earlier this month have been released on bail.

Philip Williams, 24, Kathryn Knott, 24, and Kevin Harrigan, 26, turned themselves in at Central Detectives in Franklintown early Wednesday morning, reports Philly.com. However, they were then released less than 24 hours later, around 3:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Williams and Harrigan were released on $75,000 bail, while Knott was released on $50,000 bail after they waited all night to get arraigned, reports CBS Philly.

The suspects, who are all from Bucks County, have been charged with two counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal conspiracy and reckless endangerment offenses.

The incident occurred on the night of Sept. 11 when a large group of young men and women spending the night out on the town came across two gay men in Center City. The victims claim that the group used gay slurs and viciously attacked them, leaving one man with a broken eye socket and a wired jaw and his partner with bruises and a black eye.

To find the suspects, police posted video footage of them online. Shortly thereafter, a Twitter user posted a photo of the group inside of a restaurant on the night of the attack. The unidentified Twitter user then posted a series of tweets encouraging others to identify the people in the video. That prompted about a dozen people to use Twitter and Facebook to help crack the case.

According to Williams' attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., the victims' sexual orientation did not play a role in the case. Instead, he told reporters Wednesday that this was a "mutual confrontation" and that his client "was not the aggressor," reports ABC News.

Representing Knott, who is the daughter of Chalfont Borough Police Chief Karl Knott, defense attorney Louis Busico also denied that the dispute was motivated by homophobia and denied that his client took part in the bashing.

"She in no way participated in the assault of anyone," he said Tuesday. "She didn't hurl an insult or a slur, of any kind," reports NBC10.