Police are investigating a potential hate crime against a woman from Boston during a weekend trip to D.C., NBC reports.
Roulin Wu was walking around D.C.’s Chinatown with a friend on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 12, when a stranger approached them and hit Wu on the head with a grill, she told NBC. The perpetrator allegedly told her to “go back to China.”
“Right after the incident…I think I cried for straight an hour,” Wu said.
For the rest of the trip, Wu said that she carried around her selfie stick as a self-defense weapon. “I was actually thinking about [whether] I need to establish a will so that if I die, my parents can get my money,” she told NBC.
D.C. police have released photos of the potential suspect and are asking for information regarding their whereabouts. The incident is also being investigated as a potential hate crime.
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