NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Two teen girls were arrested on Tuesday and charged with hate crimes after they allegedly attacked a woman on a Queens MTA bus and accused her of being a supporter of former President Donald Trump.
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The 16-year-old and 15-year-old girls are each charged with assault as a hate crime and aggravated assault as a hate crime for the July 9 incident that left a 57-year-old woman needing three staples on her head while making "anti-white" statements against her, police said.
A third suspect is still being sought at this time.
The arrests come weeks after the bloody assault aboard the southbound Q52 MTA bus near Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard.
Police said the assailants approached the victim and struck her in the head with an unknown object, causing a laceration and bleeding.
The victim, Jill LeCroix, told the New York Post that the suspects accused her of being a Trump supporter and one of them told the Queens grandmother of five that "she hates white people, the way they talk, hates white skin, the way their skin cracks."
"Never in my life have I been attacked like that," LeCroix said.
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