At 4am Saturday morning, an unidentified Latina trans woman was found unconscious in the Columbia Heights area of Washington, DC. She was taken to Howard University Hospital where she later died.
In an unrelated incident taking place just an hour later, police arrested a man in Southeast DC after he threatened three trans women with a gun following an altercation on a bus.
This follows off-duty police officer Kenneth Furr firing his firearm five times into a car full of transwomen and the shooting death of Lashai McLean.
Maybe someone from the Nation’s Capital can explain why violence against trans women seems to be on an upward tick?
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally accompanied by an image of two Washington D.C. trans women unrelated to the story. We regret the poor choice and have replaced the image.
Kev C
DC is a poorly managed city. The police, Metro, EMS, etc, are staffed with incompetent high school dropouts. Everyone is unprofessional. It would be an easy place for terrorists to attack.
Elliott
Would you illustrate an article about the murder of an unidentified lesbian with a photo of two random lesbians at Pride? No? Does that seem kind of strange and wrong to you? Then why are you doing it here? WTF.
MBR
@Elliott: Because Queerty is helping those two become big glamorous stars !
MoreBronx
@Hi Lighter: Well I would think and HOPE the “gay community” of DC are a little more vast and varied than those two.
Robert
The gay community is like the rest of the DC area demographic, the most educated and affluent gays in the country, bar none…
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Hi Lighter
@Robert: You are right! Similar to the area’s demographics, DC has the most educated and affluent gays in the country. Which is why I am often blown away by the CDC Fact that asserts DC has the highest HIV infection rate in the country. All that knowledge and intellect, yet…
Coyote40
@Hi Lighter: Isn’t that high rate because of the Af Am population?