A husband and wife from Massachusetts were allegedly attacked by a woman armed with a hammer at a Virginia gas station in what is being investigated as a racially-motivated crime, according to news reports.

The Uxbridge couple, who identified themselves as Bob and Kathy to Fox25 News, were heading back to Massachusetts from Florida on Saturday when they pulled into a gas station off Interstate 95 in Ruther Glen, Virginia, to fuel up.

As Bob was at the Carmel Church Exxon gas station pumping gas into his Porsche, which was hauling a boat, a woman allegedly came up to him shouting slurs and then attacked him, according to Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa.

"The perpetrator said something to him...She then got out and pretty much attacked him," Lippa said in a phone interview. "She scratched him, hit him in the face."

Bob told Fox25 that "a young black woman gets in my face" and began yelling that he had "a message for me with your fancy car and fancy boat." She also allegedly punched and spit at him.

Lippa said the suspect took a hammer to the victim's Porsche and boat, but never hit him with the hammer.

Possible hate crime leaves man bloodied at gas pump https://t.co/sS5c44rjBf pic.twitter.com/vQI8F4zqRe — WTVR CBS 6 Richmond (@CBS6) April 4, 2017

Bob pinned the suspect down to try and stop her from attacking him, Lippa said.

"A couple people came over and he lets her up and when he lets her up she starts to attack him again," Lippa said.

Kathy was inside the gas station and came out to see Bob in the confrontation with the woman. The woman then yelled derogatory, racial statements to her and spit at her, Lippa said.

The couple told Fox25 that they believe the attack was racially motivated. Bob has scratches on his face.

During the attack, the woman said she was "sick of fancy white people," according to WTVR.com.

The woman has been identified as Angela M. Jones, 26, of Newark, New Jersey, Lippa said. She is was still at large on Tuesday afternoon.

Jones is wanted on charges of malicious wounding, assault, and destruction of property, Lippa said.

The hammer that Jones allegedly used broke during the attack. She left the gas station.