Renton police are investigating after a woman was viciously beaten by a group of teens.

The victim, 39-year-old Nikki Armstrong, a transgender woman from Renton, told police she was at the Renton Transit Center on Monday and noticed a group of eight to 10 boys harassing people.

She apparently said something to the boys to try to get them to stop.

Police said Armstrong went to a nearby establishment and about three hours later, passed through the transit center again and came across the same group of boys.

At that time, there was another verbal exchange.

“She felt unsafe, so she went back to the establishment trying to get help where she tripped on something and landed on the ground and that’s when the group jumped on her,” Meeghan Black, a spokesperson for the Renton Police Department

See Full Page