An attack on a rabbi in Montgomery County on Monday is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.

Police in Maryland are investigating an attack on a rabbi as a hate crime after a man attacked with a wooden stake, authorities said.

Junior Michael Reece, 47, was arrested in connection with a felony assault that was labeled a hate crime. On Monday at 9:53 a.m., a rabbi was walking on the sidewalk… Read More

Montgomery County police arrested the suspect and charged him with a hate crime. Police said the unidentified rabbi was walking on the sidewalk on Arcola Avenue, near Kemp Mill Road, a few minutes before 10 a.m., when he was approached by a man who hit him with the wooden stake, then left the area. The rabbi suffered minor injuries.

The attack on a rabbi occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in the 1400 block of Arcola Avenue in the Wheaton area, police said.

There, a Rabbi told police that he was walking down the sidewalk when a man, later identified as 47-year-old Junior Michael Reece, swung a wooden stake at him and hit him for unknown reasons. Reece then left the area.

Police are investigating an incident as a hate crime after a rabbi was assaulted with a wooden stake. The attack, which occurred on Tuesday in Silver Spring, Maryland, has raised concerns among US Jewish communities following Israel's response to Hamas's October 7 attack last year.

A hate crime is under investigation in Montgomery County after a rabbi was attacked by a 47-year-old man with a wooden stake near several places of worship. Junior Michael Reese, who has no fixed address,