Crime & Safety
Rosedale Woman Indicted In McDonald's Transgender Assault
An 18-year-old faces assault, hate crime charges.
A Baltimore County circuit court grand jury indicted Teonna Monae Brown on assault and hate crime charges in connection with last month's attack on a transgendered woman at a McDonald's in Rosedale.
The jury issued the indictment Monday morning, according to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's office.
Brown, 18, and a 14-year-old girl were each arrested and charged in the April 18 attack on Chrissy Polis, a transgendered woman from Dundalk and Essex. She was using a bathroom at a Rosedale McDonald's.
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Prosecutors have said that no one else will be charged in connection with the incident.
A video of the assault went viral on YouTube,receiving hundreds of thousands of hits in the week that followed and spawning a rally in support of the victim at the fast-food restaurant on Kenwood Avenue.
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Brown was also indicted on charges involving Vicky Thoms, the 55-year-old Rosedale resident who tried to stop the attack.
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