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The arrest was connected to a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown. The suspect's girlfriend said he had delusions that Asian Americans were trying to harm him.

On Wednesday, a group of Dallas lawyers and advocates gathered at a Korean restaurant in the Asian Trade District to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, when a man targeted women of Asian descent, killing eight people.

Mayor Eric Johnson has formed a new Anti-Hate Advisory Council that aims to address an increasing number of hate crimes over the past year.

The Dallas Police Department is joining with Safe Place and Dallas Hope Charities to encourage hate crime victims to report hate crimes. They encourage businesses to partner with them as they focus on the LGBTQ community.

Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday.

The FBI released its annual tally of hate crimes on Tuesday. Attacks on individuals surged to a 16-year high in 2018 and hate-crime-related homicides rose from 15 to 24.

Dallas police have arrested a 29-year-old man who authorities say committed a hate crime when he repeatedly shot a transgender woman.Domingo…