Woman who stabbed 18-year-old student in the head at least seven times is sentenced to six years in federal prison for hate crime

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Billie Davis of Bloomington, Indiana has just been sentenced to six years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for committing a federal hate crime in 2023. 

According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana, Davis pleaded guilty to willfully causing bodily injury to an 18-year-old Indiana University student with a knife simply because the student was of Chinese descent.

Court documents say the student was riding a Bloomington Transit Bus when Davis boarded and sat behind her. When the student stood to exit, Davis stabbed her in the head seven to ten times with a folding knife. Thankfully the student survived but she required sutures and staples. 

“After the attack, Davis sat back down on the bus, where she remained until other passengers confronted her,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office press release says. “When Davis exited the bus, another passenger followed and confronted her about the stabbing. Davis used racist slurs when referring to the victim and claimed the victim posed a threat to the bus because she was Asian. Davis was arrested by Bloomington Police. Davis described the victim to police as “some Asian f*cking c*unt” and said she attacked the victim because she was of Chinese descent and so that there was “one less enemy.””