A car crash on Benning Road followed by an assault on the victim of the crash is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department as an anti-transgender hate crime, according to a police report.

On Monday, 37-year-old Brian Simmons of Fort Washington, Md. was arrested on the 1800 block of Benning Road NE following a car crash, per the report.

Here’s how the police report and court documents describe what happened: After Simmons and a transgender woman got into a car crash, Simmons stopped his gray SUV in the middle of the lane and tried to approach the woman. As the victim tried to move to the right lane to avoid him, he returned to his car and crashed into her on purpose, causing damage to her Jeep’s front bumper. He also hit both an electricity pole and a parked car with his vehicle. Then, he got out of his car to confront the victim, punching her in the face repeatedly while calling her a “faggot,” she told officers. He grabbed the woman by her hair, pulling her wig off. When D.C. police officers approached Simmons and commanded him to get off of the victim, he did not comply and was sprayed with pepper spray.  Ultimately, officers placed him under arrest for simple assault and resisting arrest. His one-year-old daughter was in the car during the incident, according the court documents.

Simmons’ lawyer has not responded to a request for comment.

Because DCist was unable to reach the victim despite multiple attempts, we are not naming her. However, her widely shared public Facebook account of the incident provides additional, harrowing details of what reportedly transpired. Per her post, she had accidentally cut off Simmons while driving. The two exchanged words, and Simmons then threw a water bottle at her car window, breaking the glass, according to the Facebook post. The victim attempted to find a safe space to pull over and call for help, but was trapped in traffic, she writes. She says he pulled her out of the vehicle by her hair while reportedly screaming, “Look what this faggot made me do,” while she sprayed him with Mace. (The police and court documents do not mention her use of Mace.)

According to her Facebook post, a crowd gathered at the corner of 19th Street and Benning Road NE and chanted “Kill the faggy” before the arrest.

Simmons was arraigned on Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court and pleaded not guilty, according to court documents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of D.C. has not responded to a request for comment, and it is unclear if his charges included a hate-crime prosecution.

A recent Washington Post report found that, even as D.C. police have investigated more attacks as motivated by bias than ever before in the city in 2018, the prosecution of hate crimes in the city has decreased. According to the Post, the largest percentage of hate-crime victims in the District were targeted for their sexual orientation.

This incident comes at a time when D.C.’s transgender community is still mourning the deaths of two trans women of color right by the border of the District and Maryland. While police have charged a man in the death of Zoe Spears, the investigation into Ashanti Carmon’s murder is ongoing. Like Spears and Carmon, the victim of Monday’s assault is a trans woman of color.