Police in Euless, Texas, have asked Tarrant County prosecutors to treat an attempted drowning of a Muslim toddler last month at an apartment pool as a hate crime.

A Texas state representative, whose district includes parts of the town, has joined the calls for increasing scrutiny of the incident, KDFW reported.

Elizabeth Wolf, 42, has been charged with attempted capital murder, injury to a child. and public intoxication in the May 19 incident in which she approached an American citizen wearing a hijab and her two children and began asking questions about their origins, as CrimeOnline reported. She made other racial comments and tried first to grab the woman’s 6-year-old son, who got away, and then succeeded in dragging her 3-year-old daughter under water.

The Palestinian-American mother pulled her daughter away as the child was yelling for help and coughing up water.

“She was like, help me! She’s killing my baby, she’s killing my baby!” resident Emma Aziz said. “It was crazy, you know I was shaking, my son was there. Everybody was like really, really terrified.”

Wolf was released on bond as the Texas Council on American-Islamic Relations called for a hate crime probe.

A Euless police spokesperson told NBC News that they had recommended the incident be considered a hate crime, and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office said it was considering it.

Texas State District 92 Rep. Salman Bhojani told KDFW that “hate against one community is hate against all of us.”

“And we can’t sit around and let crimes like these become the norm in our great state of Texas,” he said.

KDFW said it’s not clear if Wolf actually lived at the apartment where the incident took place.

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[Featured image: Elizabeth Wolf/Euless Police Department]