N.J. Woman’s ‘Hate Crime’ Hammer Attack Leaves Caucasian Couple Stunned: Reports

Race and socio-economic status may have been behind a New Jersey woman’s alleged hammer attack on a married, Caucasian couple from Massachusetts at a Virginia gas station near I-95 last weekend, reports say.

The assault against the Massachusetts husband and wife, which is being investigated as a hate crime, took place on Saturday morning at a Carmel Church Exxon gas station off I-95, according to Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa.

The husband – who only identified himself as “Bob” – told WTVR that he and his wife were on their way back home from a trip to Florida in their Porsche and hauling a boat when they pulled off the interstate for gas.

Bob told a reporter that he was pumping gas when a woman started yelling at him. Eventually the encounter escalated and the woman grabbed a hammer, he claimed.

And that’s when she started swinging, he said.

"She took a hammer and she hit his vehicle and the boat," Sheriff Lippa told WTVR. "She clawed him. He took her down to the ground to prevent her from doing any more damage."

During the encounter, the woman allegedly yelled racial slurs at the couple, screamed about their “fancy car and boat” and spat at them, Bob told a reporter.

"I let her go and she grabbed the hammer again and hit the boat again," Bob told the television station. "[The hammer] broke. That's when she figured out she better get out of there because she didn’t have a weapon anymore."

Bob described his attacker as a “young, black woman” to Fox News.

With the aid of a photo that a nearby witness took of the alleged attacker's vehicle, police identified the suspect as Angela M. Jones, 26, of Newark.

New Jersey State Police were contacted in an effort to find Jones, who is wanted in Virginia on charges of malicious wounding, assault and destruction of property.

A warrant has been issued for her arrest, authorities said Tuesday.

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