Footage from a Bloomington Transit bus shows the suspect stabbing an 18-year-old Carmel woman in the head. Police say she targeted the young woman because of her race.
A Carmel teen was stabbed in the head because of her Asian nationality while riding a bus in Bloomington, according to police.
A folding pocket knife was used in the attack, after which the 18-year-old Carmel woman had"blood flowing from her head," a Bloomington Police Department summary said.Investigators initially thought the injuries were from the suspect hitting the woman with her fists, but discovered at the hospital Carmel woman was stabbed multiple times in the head, according to a news release from Bloomington Police Department Capt. Ryan Pedigo.
Police reviewed video camera footage from the bus and said there was no interaction between the two women before the sudden attack, which happened at 4:43 p.m. as the bus stopped on West Fourth Street at the B-Line pedestrian trail. The woman who was attacked"said that as she was standing and waiting for the bus doors to open, another passenger on the bus began to strike her repeatedly in the head, which resulted in immediate pain," the news release said."The suspect also exited the bus and began to walk towards Kirkwood Avenue."
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