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A transgender woman was stabbed up to 40 times in Southeast D.C. early Friday morning. As the Washington Blade reports, activists are concerned about police reaction to the crime, which has not been classified as a hate crime.

Bree Wallace, 29, was attacked by a man in an abandoned house on Stanton Road SE after she went there to buy a cigarette from him, according to the Blade. She was found by rescue workers outside her apartment building early Friday and is currently in a Maryland hospital.

After two days of silence, the Blade reports that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists received an email Sunday from D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier stating a suspect in the case was in custody on “other charges.” However, an MPD spokesperson said Tuesday that no arrest has been made in the case.

The Metropolitan Police Department did not send out any alert about the stabbing, which transgender activist Earline Budd told the Blade was concerning: “I just want to make sure that it gets out there, that this attack happened and how brutal it was.”

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups previously questioned the MPD’s decision to omit the transgender identity of a murdered woman in a 2011 press release about the crime. Jason Terry of the D.C. Trans Coalition told the D.C. Council last year that MPD had “abdicated its responsibility to keep trans people in the District of Columbia safe.” The statement came shortly after the department was accused of being biased against transgender people.