Monday, June 23, 2014

Three More Dead

There have been two more murders of trans-women and one suspicious death of another trans-woman in the last month.
LGBT Community On Alert After Transgender Woman Found Dead
CBS News Baltimore
By Meghan McCorkell
June 6, 2014

Police say they don’t know who killed Kandy Hall or why they did it.

Steps away from where children play basketball, Kandy Hall’s lifeless body was found early Tuesday morning. The transgender woman was found dead along Fillmore Street in a field near a post office and a school.

The murder has rocked the local transgender community.

“Because we do not know the motive behind Kandy’s death, the LGBT communities of Baltimore remain apprehensive and on guard,” said Carrie Evans, Equality Maryland.
The second murder was down in Florida,
Fort Myers burn victim identified as transgender woman
By Naples Daily News staff
Posted June 20, 2014
FORT MYERS — Fort Myers police are trying to find the killer of a transgender woman whose body was found burned behind a garbage bin Thursday.

Police on Friday identified the victim as Eddie James Owen, 31, but family members said Owen identified as a woman and went by the name Yazmin or Yaz’min Shancez. Fort Myers Police Lt. Jay Rodriguez said they have not determined a cause of death, and are not investigating the homicide as a hate crime.
And in California another trans-woman died under mysterious circumstances,
Autopsy reveals no clues into suspicious death of transgender woman
LGBTQNation
Staff Reports
Sunday, June 22, 2014

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Police are no closer to determining the cause of death of a transgender woman whose body was found June 12 behind a Dairy Queen restaurant in Anaheim, Calif.

An autopsy did not reveal any obvious fatal injuries that would have led to the death of Zoraida Reyes, a 28-year-old transgender immigrant rights activist, and toxicology and other testing could take several months to complete.

Police said there was no indication from the autopsy that Reyes died from trauma, but that evidence suggests Reyes did not die where she was found.
We do not know who or why these two trans-women were killed and Ms. Reyes died in their prime of their lives.

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