4 folks, together with three youngsters, have been arrested in reference to an alleged hate crime assault on a transgender girl in Washington state, police mentioned.
The incident occurred Monday night time close to a transit middle within the Seattle suburb of Renton, following an argument the 39-year-old girl advised officers she had with the group earlier that night, police mentioned.
“When she noticed them once more, they chased her, knocked her to the bottom, and repeatedly assaulted her,” the Renton Police Division mentioned in a statement. “In the course of the assault, the sufferer says the suspects made homophobic remarks to her.”
The lady advised police that she initially encountered the group on the transit middle “harassing varied folks,” in accordance with the charging paperwork.
“She advised the group to cease bothering folks, which prompted the group to show their consideration on her,” the paperwork acknowledged.
The lady advised police somebody yelled a homophobic slur at her, after which the group “started charging in direction of her,” and she or he ran away, in accordance with the charging paperwork.
She advised police she tripped after which heard somebody within the group yell a transphobic slur at her, in accordance with the charging paperwork. As she tried to stand up, a number of folks within the group started assaulting her, in accordance with the paperwork.
The lady mentioned one of many attackers choked her and that she started to really feel weak, in accordance with the paperwork.
“The sufferer mentioned she believed she was going to die and thought this was the purpose that they had been going to kill her,” the paperwork acknowledged.
Video of the alleged assault filmed by a witness confirmed a number of folks within the group “violently punch and kick the sufferer” in her higher torso and head, together with whereas she was on the bottom, in accordance with the charging paperwork. The group is then seen choosing up their belongings and strolling away whereas the lady is on the bottom, in accordance with the paperwork.
The lady was taken to a hospital with severe accidents, in accordance with police. She suffered a number of damaged bones, together with a damaged nostril, a damaged occipital bone, a damaged orbital bone and misplaced consciousness in the course of the assault, in accordance with the charging paperwork.
Officers arrested two of the suspects — 15- and 17-year-old brothers — close to the scene, police mentioned. They’ve since been charged by prosecutors with second-degree assault and a hate crime in juvenile courtroom, the King County Prosecuting Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned. Throughout their arraignment Friday on the Clark Youngster and Household Justice Heart in Seattle, they each pleaded not responsible and had been ordered to stay on digital house monitoring, the prosecuting lawyer’s workplace mentioned.
A 3rd suspect — a 16-year-old boy — was arrested Thursday on assault and hate crime costs, police mentioned. Officers recognized him by his highschool campus safety staff, in accordance with courtroom filings.
Throughout his first courtroom look Friday afternoon on the Clark Youngster and Household Justice Heart, the choose discovered there was possible trigger for the arrest on the fees and ordered that the suspect be launched on digital house detention, in accordance with courtroom filings. A charging determination for the teenager is predicted on Sept. 23, prosecutors mentioned.
Police launched a picture of a suspect in an alleged hate crime assault reported on Sept. 15, 2025, in Renton, Washington.
Renton Police Division
A fourth and last suspect within the case turned himself in to police late Thursday, hours after the Renton Police Division released images on social media looking for to establish him, authorities mentioned.
The photographs had been taken from police physique digicam footage, authorities mentioned. An officer who responded to the transit middle for a pepper spray report spoke to the suspect roughly 10 minutes earlier than the alleged assault, in accordance with the charging paperwork.
“A member of the family acknowledged the suspect’s picture on the Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound web site and satisfied him to show himself in,” police mentioned in an update Friday.
The 25-year-old man — recognized by the King County Prosecuting Lawyer’s Workplace as Ramodre Edwards — was booked into the King County jail early Friday on suspicion of assault and hate crime, officers mentioned. Throughout his first courtroom look on Friday, the choose discovered there was possible trigger for the arrest on the fees and set his bail at $300,000, prosecutors mentioned.
Prosecutors mentioned they anticipate to have a charging determination concerning Edwards on Sept. 23.
Lawyer data for Edwards was not instantly out there.
