The suspect, Billie R. Davis, who has been jailed on $100,000 bail since her arrest, has a bond hearing scheduled for Wednesday at the Monroe County Circuit Court in Bloomington, according to court records. Police have described the attack as unprovoked and racially motivated.
She was charged after allegedly confessing to repeatedly stabbing the 18-year-old student with a folding knife in front of passengers on a Bloomington Transit bus on Jan. 11, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case. "Davis made a statement that it would be one less person to blow up our county," the affidavit reads.
"Davis then folds the knife, puts it back in her pocket, and returns to her seated position on the bus. Davis doesn't appear to acknowledge after stabbing her or have any other contact," the affidavit alleges.