“V-1 stated that D-1 assaulted her husband V-2, causing him to fall to the ground,” the affidavit continues. “Victim 1 and Victim 2 did not speak English,” the affidavit says, adding that police arriving on the scene immediately placed a radio call for a police officer who is a Mandarin speaker who quickly arrived on the scene to provide translation services to help police interview the parents. The affidavit identifies Victim 1 as the mother, age 61, and Victim 2 as the father, age 64.
“Victim 3 states that he heard Defendant 1 call him and his family ‘faggots’ and that he heard D-1 exclaim, ‘You are not Americans!’ before D-1 began to assault his family,” the arrest affidavit states. “Victim 3 states that he and his family tried to cross the street to create distance between them and Suspect 1,” the police report says. The police report says the family lives on the 3900 block of Fulton St. when Suspect 1, later identified as Trebat, started following them. The friend said Lai plans to release a public statement about the incident after more details about the case become known.Īccording to the two documents, Lai, who is listed as Victim 3, told police he and his parents were walking home along the 3700 block of Fulton Street, N.W. Attorney’s Office.Īlthough Lai’s sexual orientation is not disclosed in the police report or the arrest affidavit, a close friend who contacted the Washington Blade said Lai wishes to be identified as an out gay man. 15.ĭetails of the incident are provided in the police incident report and a two-page arrest affidavit prepared by police and prosecutors with the U.S. 20 were cancelled and his next scheduled appearance in court for a felony status conference is set for Nov. The court records also show that court status hearings set for the Trebat case initially scheduled for Aug. The details of the order were not immediately made public, but most such orders require an arrested person to stay away from anyone he or she is charged with harming. Superior Court Judge Judith Pipe also issued a pretrial stay away order. The documents show he was released by a judge two days after his arrest on the condition that he be placed in the court’s High Intensity Supervision release program.Ĭourt records show D.C. The court documents show that Trebat is a resident of an apartment at 4201 Cathedral Ave., N.W., which is located less than a mile from where the incident occurred. Attorney’s Office is continuing to investigate the facts and circumstances of the case and has no further comment at this time,” Miller told the Washington Blade. Attorney’s Office, said the office does not comment on its reasons for charging decisions in pending cases. William Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office do not attribute the attack to bias related to Lai’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, even though one of the charging documents quotes Trebat as reciting the word “faggots.” Attorney’s Office attribute the bias aspect of the crime only to the three victims’ “actual or perceived national origin.” The charges filed by the U.S. Superior Court, charging Trebat with two counts of Bias-related Assault with Significant Bodily Injury and one count of Bias-related Assault in connection with the incident along with a charge of destruction of property related to damage to Lai’s cell phone during the attack.īut the charges filed by the U.S. The court documents show that prosecutors with the Office of the U.S. resident since 2013.Ĭourt documents state that Trebat allegedly attacked Lai and his parents as they were walking on the street in the city’s Observatory Circle neighborhood where they are currently living and which is a short distance from the National Cathedral. The Watch Commander, who is not identified by name, added in the statement that suspect Trebat punched and kicked the three victims as he stated, “Get out of my country.”Īmong the victims was Sean Lai, 30, an out gay man of Chinese ancestry who last year completed his doctorate degree in physics at Georgetown University and currently works as a data scientist.
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