A 25-year-old Auburn man was sentenced Tuesday for a federal hate crime after he pulled a Black woman off a Metro bus and stabbed her in 2024.
Adan Hernandez-Mayoral will spend four and a half years in prison for the incident in which he used a knife to cause bodily injury to the victim and attacked her because of her race, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“The facts of what happened on that bus are despicable,” U.S. District Judge James Robart stated. “It was a prolonged intentional assault on a Black woman. We need to protect the public from this defendant.”
Auburn man attacks woman after yelling racist comments on Metro bus
Hernandez-Mayoral boarded a King County Metro bus on March 7, 2024, and immediately began making racist comments about Black people, according to court documents. He started antagonizing the victim and yelled, “I don’t like Black people, f***in’ hate ’em.”…