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A woman who threw a piece of concrete through a window at the General Assembly Building on Thursday night during a legislative committee meeting apparently was trying to get arrested so that she would have a place to stay on a bitterly cold night, according to Capitol Police.

State Sen. Mark D. Obenshain, R-Rockingham, tweeted that he was in a Senate Finance subcommittee meeting at 6:45 p.m. “and one very agitated woman throws brick through GAB committee room window ... #andthebandplayedon.”

No one was injured in the incident, which apparently had nothing to do with the legislative meeting in Senate Room A, said Capt. Randy Howard of the Capitol Police.

Howard, who did not have the woman’s name, said an initial investigation determined that the woman had just punched a female Virginia Commonwealth University student at Eighth and Franklin streets. The student, who did not know the woman, was not seriously injured and refused medical treatment.

Police say the woman then walked to the General Assembly Building at Ninth and Broad streets and threw the chunk of concrete.

It appears “it was all an attempt to get arrested so she would have a place to stay,” Howard said in a phone interview.