Transgender arrested in a chemical bombing in New York

A transgender woman was arrested in connection with the random attacks of at least seven people who were sprayed with a chemical Friday in New York City as part of a hate crime investigation.

Thomas J. Heard, 37, was arrested after allegedly threatening someone with a sharp object in the Bronx. The victim worked with the police to find her. The authorities believe that Heard was also responsible for watering a man with a substance resembling a pepper spray at the 125th St. subway station lines A / C / B / D on Friday and then to run down the street and spray five other people.

Shortly after, she allegedly attacked another woman who was waiting for train No. 1 west of 96 Street and Broadway. Then, around 2 pm, a woman who appears to be Heard can be seen on a surveillance video violently kicking a stranger, Denise Galloway, in the leg before spraying it with her boyfriend.

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"All of a sudden, I hear this woman yelling at me from behind:" I hate you, you're explaining! ", Galloway told ABC 7." I saw her something out of his pocket I did not know if it was a weapon, I did not know if it was a knife – I did not know what she had. "She sprayed the Galloway's boyfriend, Joe Barbuto, in the eye. Heard then seems to chase Barbuto down the street and spray him again.

"She said, 'I'm going to spray you pepper,' and she came to me and she actually went through my face," Barbuto said.

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Police claim that Heard's actions were racist because all of his victims were white. When the police arrested her, they recovered pepper spray and a pair of scissors. She was allegedly charged with assault as a hate crime, threatening as a hate crime, harassment as a crime of hatred and assault with criminal possession of a weapon.