4 arrested, including 3 teenagers, in an alleged hate crime attack against transgender women: the police

Four people, including three teenagers, have been arrested in relation to an alleged hate crime attack against a transgender woman in the state of Washington, police said.

The incident occurred on Monday night near a transit center in the suburb of Seattle de Renton, after an argument that the 39 -year -old woman told the officers she had with the group that night, police said.

“When he saw them again, they chased her, they called her to the ground and repeatedly attacked her,” said the Renton Police Department in a statement. “During the assault, the victim says that the suspects made homophobic comments.”

The woman told the Police that she initially met the group at the transit center “harassing several people,” according to the accusation documents.

“She told the group to stop bothering people, which caused the group to call her attention,” the documents said.

The woman told the police that someone shouted a homophobic insult, and then the group “began to load towards her”, and she escaped, according to the accusation documents.

She told the Police that she stumbled and then listened to someone in the group shouting a transbobic insult, according to the loading documents. While trying to get up, several people in the group began to attack it, according to the documents.

The woman said that one of the attackers drowned her and that she began to feel weak, according to the documents.

“The victim said he thought he was going to die and thought this was the point that they were going to kill her,” the documents said.

The video of the alleged assault filmed by a witness showed several people in the group “violently hit and kick the victim” in their torso and upper head, even while on the ground, according to the loading documents. Then the group is seen collecting their belongings and moving away while the woman is on the ground, according to the documents.

The woman was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to the police. He suffered multiple broken bones, including a broken nose, a broken occipital bone, a broken orbital bone and lost knowledge during the attack, according to loading documents.

The officers arrested two of the suspects, 15 and 17 -year -old brothers, near the scene, police said. Since then, prosecutors have been accused of second degree assault and a crime of hatred in the Juvenile Court, said King County Prosecutor’s Office. During their reading charges on Friday at Clark Child and Family Justice Center in Seattle, both declared themselves innocent and ordered to remain in the electronic monitoring of the home, said the prosecutor’s office.

A third suspect, a 16 -year -old boy, was arrested Thursday by assault and hate crime charges, police said. The officers identified him through the Security Team of the High School Campus, according to judicial documents.

During his first appearance in court on Friday afternoon at the Clark Family Justice and Children Center, the judge determined that there was a probable cause for arrest for the charges and ordered that the suspect was discharged in the electronic detention of the home, according to judicial presentations. A collection decision for the teenager is expected on September 23, prosecutors said.

A fourth and last suspect in the case delivered to the police on Thursday night, hours after the Renton Police Department launched images In social networks that seek to identify it, authorities said.

The images were taken from the images of the police force chamber, authorities said. An officer who responded to the Transit Center for a pepper report to Spray spoke with the suspect approximately 10 minutes before the alleged assault, according to the accusation documents.

“A family member acknowledged the suspect’s photo on the crime Stoppers of Puget Sound website and convinced him to surrender,” the police said in a update Friday.

The 25 -year -old man, identified by the King County prosecutor’s office as Ramodre Edwards, was admitted to King County prison on early Friday under suspicion of assault and hate crimes, authorities said. During his first appearance in the court court, the judge determined that there was a probable cause for arrest for the charges and set his bond at $ 300,000, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said they hope to have a collection decision regarding Edwards on September 23.

Edwards’s lawyer was not immediately available.