Bailey Cantrell stopped at a gas station near her apartment in the West End of Nashville:

“NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bailey Cantrell was sitting inside her car at a Nashville gas station parking lot early Saturday morning when a complete stranger violently attacked her.

According to a report from Metro Nashville Police, a man approached Cantrell while she was on the phone and asked for her phone number. Cantrell rebuffed his advances twice. The third time, she told the man she would not be interested in exchanging numbers because she identifies as a lesbian.

That’s when the man launched himself onto the hood of her car, kicked in her windshield and proceeded to drag her to the ground.

“I said I’m gay, so I’m just not interested, and that triggered him,” Cantrell said. “I do believe it was a hate crime.” …”