The 17-year-old was having a meal on the floor when she was attacked with a butcher knife Sunday. Officials say they aren’t yet ruling out hate crime charges.
A man accused of stabbing a transgender 17-year-old girl with a butcher knife at Miami International Airport on Sunday was arrested and charged with attempted murder, police said.
Alexander Love, 29, was charged with first-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon and attempted premeditated murder, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Officers responded to Terminal J around 11:30 p.m. after reports of a stabbing, officials said in a news release. The victim was eating a meal while sitting on the floor when, officials say, Love attacked her without provocation, stabbing her about 18 times in her face, head, arms, shoulders, neck and legs before he tried to throw her over a safety retaining glass, officials said.
I’m pretty concerned that a 17 year old needing to live at the airport doesn’t cause much more uproar, and that many more people are living at airports in places like Miami.
The article doesn’t say she lived at the airport…
Shit, different article I read yeaterday said both victim and perpetrator were living at the airport
Could be traveling and was dropped off at the terminal too early to be allowed through security. I’ve done that—got dropped off at Logan airport at 9 pm for my 6 am flight. It’s when I could catch a ride. Ended up sleeping in shifts with some other college students in the same boat, all heading home for winter break.
If you have an international layover, you have to go through customs and then recheck your bags and go through security again. Airlines now (not sure if this is some or all of them, or how long this has been policy) will only let you check your bag within 4 hours of your departing flight. So one time I had an 8 hour layover, where I couldn’t get back into the airport for 4 hours.