Indiana University says an 18-year-old student was targeted and stabbed on a bus in Bloomington for being Asian.
An 18-year-old Carmel, Indiana, woman told investigators that while waiting for the doors of the bus to open, another passenger began to strike her repeatedly in the head, police said in a statement.
Police did not respond to a question about whether the attack is being investigated as a hate crime.
The university's Asian Culture Center called the attack "a horrific and targeted anti-Asian hate crime."
Indiana's hate crime law, enacted in 2019, allows judges to consider harsher sentences where “bias” factors, including “color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion,” motivated the crime, according to the Matthew Shepard Foundation.