Update: Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested a suspect who allegedly vandalized Casa Ruby, assaulted an employee, and made threats at the LGBT community center in an incident on Sunday afternoon.

Andrew Cook of Southeast D.C. was arrested on Monday night and charged with felony destruction of property, simple assault, and threatening to kidnap or injure a person.

Original: A visitor vandalized a prominent LGBT community center on Georgia Avenue NW and assaulted an employee on Sunday.

The suspect walked into Casa Ruby on Sunday afternoon and a verbal altercation ensued with an employee of the non profit, according to the Metropolitan Police Department report. The altercation turned violent when the suspect approached the employee and hit her in the forehead with his pointer finger. Then, the suspect picked up a bar of soap and threw it at her. He left, but not before throwing a brick through the front door and kicking it.

On his way out, he said, “I’ll kill your motherf*cking *ss. Ya’ll tranny motherf*ckers think somebody won’t f*ck ya’ll up,” according to the police report.

This is the third incident Casa Ruby has faced in the past two weeks, says Ruby Corado, the non profit’s executive director and founder. “Unfortunately we’ve seen a pattern that people begin with threats and then deliver on their promises,” she says. “I used to get a lot of threats. Now they’re showing up here.”

Corado says that two weeks ago, a man came to the center who appeared friendly and then started making sexual advances to some of the youth there. When they did not respond, “he went crazy and he punched a hole in the wall,” she says. He was arrested, but “last week he came back and punched another hole in the wall.”

The suspect on Sunday is a different man. “This one was more of a bully,” says Corado.

Interim Police Chief Peter Newsham came to Casa Ruby later on Sunday following a text from Corado, after responding officers told her they’d follow up in a few days to a week’s time.

“This man is running out here in the community. What do you mean you’re going to be here next week?” she says. “I texted [Newsham] and an hour later he walked through the door. We’re a target so it does mean a lot that he came in to make a stand. That sends a message to our community.” Mayor Muriel Bowser has nominated Newsham to be the permanent chief, pending council approval.

Corado says Newsham assured her that D.C. Police are working to arrest the suspect. MPD has not yet released information about the suspect. The police report indicates the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

Corado stood in between Newsham and Bowser on Friday as they announced that hate crimes in D.C. increased 62 percent from 2015 to 2016. In total, hate crimes increased from 66 incidents in 2015 to 107 incidents in 2016—those related to gender identity or expression nearly doubled, and those related to sexual orientation increased by about 50 percent.

“It is an increase—I live it. I get bullied. I get name-called. It’s real,” says Corado. “I never had to call the police like we’ve had to call the police in the last six months.”

It’s not just Casa Ruby, either. Shortly after the inauguration, someone threw a brick through the window of HIPS, a non profit that supports sex workers and drug users.

The damage to the door alone at Casa Ruby will cost around $2,000 to fix, Corado says. She also plans to talk with the non profit’s major funders about getting a security guard for the Georgia Avenue NW storefront, which also serves as a hypothermia shelter and provides hot meals and assistance to some of the District’s most vulnerable residents. Casa Ruby also accepts donations on its website.

While talking to DCist over the phone, Corado was also speaking to a person who came to fix the door.

“Do you have glass that is shatterproof?” Corado asked him. “I need something that if somebody throws a brick again, that it will stand because I’m going to be getting more of this. I’m not going to be paying for another door every week.”