A Bloomington woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court after being charged last year with a racially motivated stabbing of an Asian student at Indiana University.
Billie Davis will be sentenced Dec. 3 after pleading guilty to a violation of the Hate Crime Act.
Prosecutors said Davis stabbed the victim several times in the head with a folding knife Jan. 11, 2023, on a Bloomington Transit bus downtown. Bus video showed no confrontation between Davis and the victim before the attack.
Davis later told police she did it “due to (the victim) being Chinese” and said “it would be one less person to blow up our country,” according to the police affidavit.
The court found Davis competent to enter the guilty plea after questions about her mental illness were part of earlier court proceedings.
