Washington Man Sentenced for Hate Crime Charge After Stabbing a Black Woman Metro Bus Passenger

What happened

According to U.S. Department of Justice’s source item, Washington Man Sentenced for Hate Crime Charge After Stabbing a Black Woman Metro Bus Passenger, A Washington man was sentenced today to a federal hate crime charge for violently assaulting and stabbing a Black female passenger because of her race. Adan Hernandez-Mayoral was sentenced to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release for an incident in which he used a dangerous weapon, a knife, to cause bodily injury to the victim because of her race and color.

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Source

Primary source: Washington Man Sentenced for Hate Crime Charge After Stabbing a Black Woman Metro Bus Passenger via U.S. Department of Justice. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.