The “state of affairs was swiftly contained,” airport officers mentioned.
A 17-year-old transgender teen was stabbed inside a terminal at Miami Worldwide Airport at about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, sending her to the hospital in important situation and prompting a disruption of service, police and airport officers mentioned.
The sufferer hasn’t been in a position to converse attributable to their accidents, police instructed ABC Information Monday, and due to this fact has not been in a position to provide detectives additional particulars on the incident. Police mentioned they’re trying into the incident as a potential hate crime.
Alexander Paul Love, 29, was charged with tried homicide with a lethal weapon within the first diploma and premeditated tried homicide within the stabbing. He appeared in Miami-Dade Bond Court docket Monday and isn’t eligible for bond.
The preliminary investigation revealed that Love and the sufferer have been on the fourth ground of the terminal within the pre-security space, in accordance with officers. The teenager was consuming whereas seated on the ground when Love allegedly stabbed the teenager with out provocation 18 instances within the arms, shoulders, neck, face, head and legs with a butcher knife.
The arrest affidavit states that when the sufferer tried to free herself from the assault, Love allegedly grabbed her and tried to tug and push her over the fourth ground railing the place the sufferer would have landed on the primary ground of the airport. The sufferer escaped and ran downstairs the place she acquired medical help.
Love claimed, in accordance with the affidavit, that he was “presumably drugged and somebody inserted an unknown object in his rectum.”
“The defendant isn’t sure the sufferer is liable for this,” the affidavit continued. The affidavit notes there was no indication of alcohol or drug use.
Cops took the topic into custody within the space the place the stabbing occurred and recovered the knife. Miami-Dade Hearth Rescue responded and transported the sufferer to JMH Ryder Trauma Heart in important situation.
The “state of affairs was swiftly contained,” airport officers mentioned.
“We wish to guarantee the general public that the state of affairs is below management and the security of our passengers, workers, and guests stays our prime precedence,” the Miami-Dade Aviation Division mentioned.
