Police say hate motivated attack on transgender person near Franklin High

By Lewis Kamb

Seattle Times staff reporter

The brutal attack of a transgender woman by a group of youths at a bus stop near Franklin High School on Saturday was clearly motivated by hate, Seattle police say.

A 13-year-old boy arrested shortly after the assault in South Seattle faces felony malicious harassment and attempted-robbery charges, according to police.

Several other youths who allegedly joined the boy in the attack remain at large, police say.

The suspect "was uncooperative in providing information regarding the identities of the other suspects involved," Officer Wayne Johnson wrote in his report.

The attack occurred at 4:42 p.m. at a Metro bus stop near Rainier Avenue South and South Mount Baker Boulevard. The 36-year-old victim told police that she is in the process of changing her "name and appearance from a man to a woman,"according to Johnson's report.

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