Washington Blade | Police release video, photos of suspects in attack on D.C. trans woman
August 12, 2019
The Advoc8te
👩🏽‍💻 Update: Someone has stated that at least one of these suspects is a student at Ballou Senior High School in Congress Heights. If you recognize anyone please contact MPD. You can even leave an anonymous tip. People in the Ward 8 community are outraged by this attack and disgusted with this behavior and speaking for myself, I hope everyone is identified and charged. This is unacceptable.
The victim, Alicia Love Wood, told the Washington Blade she was first attacked by a group of seven young men who knocked her down and took her purse after calling her “tranny,” “he-she,” and “faggot” on a side street just off Minnesota Avenue.
After getting up and running across Minnesota Avenue to a Citgo gas station seeking help, three of the suspects chased her into a small convenience store at the gas station where she pleaded with the cashier sitting inside an enclosed booth to let her in. She said the cashier declined to do so.
“And they started to punch me and beat me up and they took my fanny pack and they took my phone and everything,” she told the Blade. Among the items in her fanny pack or belt bag was $300 in cash, according to a police report of the incident.
She said the attacks occurred shortly after she got off work at the DC Eagle gay bar located about three blocks away.
Lou Chibbaro Jr./Washington Blade
The Metropolitan Police Department seeks the public's assistance in identifying nine persons of interest in reference to a Robbery (Force & Violence) incident which occurred in the 3800 block of Minnesota Avenue, SE, on Friday, August 2, 2019, at approximately 3:20 AM. The subjects were captured by nearby surveillance cameras.