A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the 56-year-old woman with committing a hate crime after she attacked an IU student of Chinese descent on a Bloomington city bus back in January.
A federal grand jury in Evansville returned the single-count hate crime indictment against Billie Davis, 56, on Thursday.
Police say an 18-year-old Indiana University student told investigators she was riding a Bloomington Transit bus on Jan. 11. When she stood up to wait for the doors to open at her exit she said another passenger began striking her repeatedly in the head. Police said the attacker had fled the scene before they arrived, but another passenger followed her and helped officers track her down."The indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges that on Jan. 11, Billie Davis, 56, willfully caused bodily injury to the victim and attempted to do so using a knife, because of the victim’s race and national origin.
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