May 8, 2021 at 12:50pm
A man allegedly left a local restaurant without paying, shoved a restaurant employee, and used anti-Asian slurs, according to police.
The incident happened shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday along Crystal City’s restaurant row, on the 500 block of 23rd Street S.
Restaurant employees told police they confronted the man after he didn’t pay the bill, but he kept walking away. The man also allegedly pushed an employee to the ground while another recorded the encounter on video.
The alleged assault is being investigated by Arlington County police. The employees, who are of Asian descent, told officers that the man used racial slurs, which has been referred by ACPD to Virginia State Police as a possible hate crime.
Arlington County police are asking for help in finding a man accused of assaulting a restaurant employee and using racial slurs after leaving without paying his bill.
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Arlington police searching for attacker they say strangled woman
By Sierra Fox
The frightening incident happened around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in the 1800 block of N. Uhle Street in Arlington, Virginia.
Officers were called to the scene for an assault in progress. Upon arrival, investigators found out a female victim was walking in the area when an unknown male approached her from behind and tightly put a rope or cord around her neck. The victim attempted to pull the object loose and fell to the ground with the suspect on top of her. Police say the suspect started to strangle her with his hands and stopped the attack when two witnesses were in view.
Today at 2:00pm
A man used a cord and then his hands to try to strangle a woman last night in Arlington’s Colonial Village neighborhood, according to police.
The reported attack happened around 7 p.m. on the 1800 block of N. Uhle Street, in the garden-style apartment and condo community between Courthouse and Lee Highway.
“The female victim was walking in the area when the unknown male suspect approached her from behind and tightly put a rope or cord around her neck,” the Arlington County Police Department said today in a press release. “The victim attempted to pull the object loose and fell to the ground with the suspect over her. The suspect then began to strangle her with his hands and stopped the attack when two witnesses arrived in the area.”