CRIME
Trans Woman Harassed,
Stabbed on Subway
A transgender woman was attacked by a suspect wielding a screwdriver on June 23.
BY TAT BELLAMY-WALKER
A transgender woman
was stabbed by a man
wielding a screwdriver
at a Manhattan subway
station just days before the fi nal
weekend of Pride Month in New
York City.
Nina Grey, 27, told police she
was traveling on a southbound A
train before noon on June 23 when
a male perpetrator began hurling
anti-LGBTQ slurs at her while
holding a screwdriver.
“As soon as I took my seat, in
that split second, I was being called
a (expletive) trans,” Grey told ABC
News.
The verbal dispute spilled onto
the platform at the Broadway and
Fulton Street subway station in
Lower Manhattan when the man
lunged at Grey with the weapon,
police said. As Grey pepper-sprayed
her attacker, the suspect stabbed
her in the forehead and the ankle,
REUTERS/BRENDAN MCDERMID
according to the NYPD. Following
the incident, the suspect boarded
an A train and fl ed the scene.
The investigation is ongoing and
the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force
is handling the incident as a possible
bias-fueled attack. No arrests
have been made.
The attack is not the only local
anti-LGBTQ attack as of late. A
transgender man and his wife were
recently slashed on the subway after
a perpetrator allegedly hurled
anti-LGBTQ slurs at the couple.
Relatedly, a trans woman was brutally
attacked by her Grindr date
in the Bronx last month, leaving
her with lacerations and bruises
on her body.
“I just wish that all of this hate
could stop. Not just in the LGBT
community, but all across the
board,” Grey told ABC News. “Because
people lives matter not just
trans, Black, Hispanic, Asian lives
— people’s lives matter, and I think
that’s the point people matter.”
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