An LGBTQ activist on the Kenai Peninsula says she was slashed with a knife and beaten in her home this month within a few weeks of two threatening incidents.

TWillis is living on campus for now, taking advantage of the security protections there. Friends don’t let her go anywhere alone. She and her wife also have a house in Anchorage, where Willis spent the holidays.

She can’t shake the conviction the three incidents are related and constitute a hate crime that merits a warning to other people in the LGBTQ community.

But Alaska doesn’t have a hate-crime statute, so the Soldotna police and Alaska State Troopers investigating the incidents aren’t using those words. Neither has issued any broad warnings.

The note was classified under the title of “suspicious circumstances,” according to Soldotna police Lt. Duane Kant. Willis, who said she didn’t find the message until she used her windshield wipers, said she wasn’t sure where or when it was put there. Read more via Anchorage Daily News