Racist comments from METRO bus stabbing suspect prompt HPD hate crime investigation, police say

A man with an extensive criminal and mental health history is now accused of stabbing a METRO bus rider based on her racial identity.

Edward Scott, 66, is being held in the Harris County Jail on a half-million-dollar bond. He is accused of stabbing a woman multiple times in the back while both were on a Metro bus at Westheimer near Tanglewilde early Saturday morning.

Houston police are also looking into whether Scott actually committed a hate crime, because he told arresting officers he “hated Mexicans.”

ABC13 found the woman, who was riding the bus to her job as a house cleaner, when she was attacked.

“I was going to work when he got on the bus,” the woman, who did not want to be identified, said. “He quickly stabbed me, and I ran to the front of the bus.”

Read more: ABC 13