<h3><span style="color: #828282; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Suspect faces possibility of increased penalties due to alleged hate/bias motivation</span></h3>
<p><img style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; width: 300px; height: 375px; margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; float: right;" src="http://www.wmata.com/Images/Mrel/MF_Uploads/REGINALD-KLAIBER-1865334.jpg?" alt="Reginald KLAIBER" />WASHINGTON, D.C. 07/31/2014&#8212; Metro Transit Police have arrested and charged Reginald Anthony KLAIBER, 24, of Greenbelt, Md., with assault with a deadly weapon (knife) following an assault on a juvenile transgender female yesterday afternoon aboard a Green Line train. The charges include the possibility of enhanced penalties for hate/bias motivation.</p>
<p>Transit Police officers were dispatched at 4:38 p.m. for an assault in progress aboard a Branch Avenue-bound Green Line train on approach to Fort Totten. Officers responded to Fort Totten Station, where they apprehended the suspect as he attempted to flee the scene. Officers also recovered a 3.5-inch folding knife.</p>
<p>The victim, a 15-year-old transgender female, was allegedly stabbed in the back by the suspect after the two exchanged words aboard the train. Witnesses told Transit Police detectives that the suspect made bias-motivated remarks about the victim&#8217;s transgender status immediately prior to the assault.</p>
<p>The victim was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening puncture wound. She is listed in stable condition.</p>
<p>If convicted, the suspect faces a maximum penalty on the assault with a deadly weapon charge subject to a 1<span style="color: #545454; line-height: 18px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">½</span> times enhancement under District of Columbia law.</p>
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Metro Attack: Police charge suspect with bias-motivated assault with deadly weapon following stabbing aboard Green Line train
REGINALD-KLAIBER charged with stabbing a person on Metro Train.