A racist transgender woman faces jail after being found guilty of battering a Chinese man on a New York City subway with a hammer.
Christian Jeffers, 49, who identifies as a woman, was found guilty of attempted assault, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and aggravated harassment.
The jury deliberated for less than a day before delivering a guilty verdict. Jeffers had taken to the stand one day prior in her defense.
Jeffers was arrested last spring for assaulting a 29-year-old Asian victim at the 14th Street subway station in Manhattan. Prosecutors argued Jeffers attacked with 'little to no provocation.'
The incident, which was captured on-camera, shows Jeffers, wearing a black wig and purple lipstick, smashing the victim in the head with a hammer just after the strangers had bumped into one another.
The pair exchanged words before Jeffers can be seen launching a brutal attack on the 29-year-old Asian man.
Police said Jeffers has a vast criminal history that stretches back to 2007 and includes 47 prior arrests, charges of prostitution, grand larceny, public lewdness, theft of service and drug possession.
Jeffers was released from prison in June 2021 after serving six years for second-degree robbery, and just a week after release, was arrested for petit larceny.
Jeffers has yet to be sentenced following the guilty verdict, but assault in the first degree, a Class C felony in which an individual has intentionally caused serious physical injury to another person using a dangerous weapon, can carry a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.
At the time of the hammer attack, the victim said he was fed up with the rising crime in the Big Apple - and that he wants his hammer-wielding attacker 'locked up.' 'I want to get him locked up because he was pretty aggressive,' the victim, who chose not to be identified, told the New York Post. 'He was looking for trouble. 'We're trying to live our lives as well as we can, you know, and it's just unfortunate that we have to face all these adversities, along with just all the struggles in life,' he added.
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