Columbia woman charged with hate crime

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Prosecutors have charged a Columbia woman with three felonies in connection with an alleged hate crime that occurred in February. 

Ashley D. Dooley, 34, was charged Monday with third-degree assault, assault motivated by discrimination and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police arrested Dooley on Feb. 8 after being called to an apartment complex in the 900 block of Locust Street, according to a probable cause statement. Police allege Dooley assaulted the victim after he threw away her notebook that she left on the ground. The victim claims that he thought the notebook was trash and told police that Dooley returned and began yelling at him and the residents, according to the statement. 

Dooley yelled a racial slur at the victim and began spitting in his direction, according to the report. The victim said he asked Dooley to back up but she spit on him again, hit him with a water bottle and used more racial slurs, according to police.

Columbia Police Department officers found a glass pipe that field-tested positive for methamphetamine and two of the victim's dreadlocks that Dooley had ripped out, according to the statement.

Dooley has not been arrested, according to online court records. She is listed as another defendant in a separate case with identical charges but information on that case was not available late Tuesday.

Dooley is homeless and on parole, according to the statement.

She does not have a lawyer, according to court records.