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.

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.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•2 months ago

        No. Tegel Airport, soon as you walked in, you were at security.

        It’s closed now, but that only means you can’t even stroll in at all.

            • mad_asshatter
              0•2 months ago

              That would be the least-fun trip to the airport ever.

              Not that any of the big ones are “fun”, anymore.

              • rand_alpha19
                5•2 months ago

                I think I can say with 100% certainty that I have never had fun in an airport pre-security area. What’s your idea of fun?

                  • rand_alpha19
                    5•2 months ago

                    I was, but that doesn’t mean I had fun. It’s like going to a government building or a train station: it’s a purpose-built place where you have to behave and there aren’t really activities. How is that fun?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•2 months ago

        From what I can recall, I didn’t think DFW has anything but baggage checks and ticket counters outside the secure area. You can technically go into the airport, but there’s no reason to if you’re not a passenger, and security would probably make you move if you tried to sit anywhere.