IN - Billie Davis, 56, allegedly stabs 18-year old woman in the head multiple times for being Asian - 2/21/23

[Bishop Black]

Indiana University Student Stabbed On Bus For Being Asian, School Says

The 18-year-old was repeatedly stabbed in the head while waiting to exit the bus in Bloomington. Billie R. Davis was later arrested, police said.

www.huffpost.com

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian.

The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a Bloomington Transit bus Wednesday afternoon when another passenger began striking her in the head, Bloomington police said in a release.

Court documents show Davis said the victim was targeted because of her race, according to WNDU-TV.

 

[ifindedout]

Charged with federal hate crime:
Indiana woman charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack
According to the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana Davis, 56, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Evansville, Ind., on Thursday. She also faces local charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery with a deadly weapon.

The indictment alleges that Davis "willfully caused bodily injury to the victim and attempted to do so through the use of a knife, because of the victim's race and national origin," the DOJ and U.S. attorney's office said.

Federal indictment:

Indiana Woman Charged with Federal Hate Crime for Racially Motivated Attack Against a Woman of Chinese Descent

www.justice.gov

Indianapolis- A federal grand jury in Evansville, Indiana, returned a single-count indictment charging Billie Davis, 56, with committing a hate crime for her racially motivated attack on a woman of Chinese descent.

The indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges that on Jan. 11, Davis willfully caused bodily injury to the victim and attempted to do so through the use of a knife, because of the victim’s race and national origin. The indictment also alleges that the offense included an attempt to kill the victim.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Zachary A. Myers made the announcement.

The FBI Indianapolis Field Office and Bloomington Resident Agency investigated the case, with assistance from the Bloomington Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter A. Blackett for the Southern District of Indiana and Trial Attorney Anita Channapati of the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section are prosecuting the case.

 

[LadyL]

I'm wondering if the suspect has a history of violence and why she thinks it's funny (smiling in mugshot).

 

[Knitty]

State dismisses charges against accused IU student attacker Billie Davis

A motion to dismiss showed the state dropped charges against a woman accused of attacking an IU student in a "racially motivated" incident earlier this year.

www.wthr.com

A motion to dismiss, filed by chief deputy prosecuting attorney Jeffrey Kehr on April 25, indicated the state moved to drop charges against 56-year-old Billie Davis in order to expedite federal charges against her.

 

[FrostedGlass]

I'm wondering if the suspect has a history of violence and why she thinks it's funny (smiling in mugshot).

Not in Indiana. She had a PI in 2001, stole a car in 2002, she had an F6 in 2018 for maintaining a common nuisance-controlled substance (with 2 men). Then this case.

 

[LadyL]

Not in Indiana. She had a PI in 2001, stole a car in 2002, she had an F6 in 2018 for maintaining a common nuisance-controlled substance (with 2 men). Then this case.

what is a PI and an F6?

 

[FrostedGlass]

what is a PI and an F6?

Public Intoxication and Felony 6 (low level).