An Indiana woman is charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack

An 18-year-old Indiana University student was less than a mile away from the Bloomington campus when an attacker struck her multiple times in the head with a folding knife. (Darron Cummings/AP)

Billie R. Davis, 56, who is accused of stabbing a young passenger on a public bus in Bloomington, Ind., because she assumed the 18-year-old Indiana University student was "Chinese," has been charged with a federal hate crime.

According to the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana Davis, 56, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Evansville, Ind., on Thursday. She also faces local charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery with a deadly weapon.