US Attorney’s office discloses two D.C. anti-LGBTQ hate crime cases
The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, which prosecutes most people charged with committing crimes in the nation’s capital, disclosed for the first time earlier this month that a murder and an assault with a dangerous weapon that occurred in D.C.
in 2021 have been classified as anti-LGBTQ hate crimes. Court records show that arrests have been made in both cases and a man arrested in the murder case is being held without bond and is scheduled for a jury trial on May 6, 2024.
Another man arrested in the unrelated anti-transgender assault case is scheduled to stand trial on Sept. 26, 2023. Assistant U.S.
Attorney Linda Monroe provided information about the two cases at a June 15 virtual meeting of the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Hate-Bias Task Force, which was attended by local LGBTQ activists.
