Four people – including three teenagers – are accused of a hate crime in Washington state after being arrested in connection with an alleged attack on a transgender woman that left the victim hospitalized, according to authorities.
“They chased her, knocked her to the ground, and repeatedly assaulted her,” police said in their statement.
That drew the group’s attention, and they began “charging towards her”, the police documents alleged.
Police arrested two of the suspects – boys ages 15 and 17 who were siblings – near the scene of the alleged attack soon after it happened.
A third boy, 16, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault and a hate crime.
Police said that man then turned himself over to police to be booked on counts of assault and a hate crime.
King county prosecutors charged the two sibling suspects with assault, strangulation, great bodily harm and a hate crime. »