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riversedge

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Fri Jun 14, 2019, 08:49 PM Jun 2019

Trans Woman Murdered in D.C. Suburb Is Second This Year

Source: advocate.com






June 14 2019 5:13 PM EDT


A transgender woman was murdered Thursday night in Fairmount Heights, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. — the second homicide of a trans woman in that town this year.

Zoe Spears, 23, who lived in Washington, was found with a gunshot wound on a street in Fairmount Heights just before midnight and was pronounced dead at the scene, The Washington Post reports.


Trans woman Ashanti Carmon was shot to death in the suburb March 27, and her body was discovered “less than half a mile away from where Spears was found,” the Post notes. Her murder is still under investigation.

“There’s no direct link that we see at this point, but that is obviously something we are monitoring very closely,” said Maj. Brian Reilly, commander of the criminal investigation division for Prince George’s County police, according to the paper.

“It’s unusual that we had two murders like this within a couple blocks of each other,” he added.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/6/14/trans-woman-murdered-dc-suburb-second-year



And now Trump has banned trans from the military. Horrible.

"Spears is the 10th transgender American known to have been murdered this year. All of them have been women of color."






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Trans Woman Murdered in D.C. Suburb Is Second This Year (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2019 OP
Fairmount Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. elleng Jun 2019 #1
We need to know these are real people ... marble falls Jun 2019 #2
.... 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2019 #3
The drumpf murders. truthisfreedom Jun 2019 #4
2 trans women have been murdered in Dallas too n/t TexasBushwhacker Jun 2019 #5

elleng

(130,126 posts)
1. Fairmount Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 08:54 PM
Jun 2019

The population was 1,494 at the 2010 census. The town was formally incorporated in 1935, making the town the second oldest African-American-majority municipality in Prince George's County.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_Heights,_Maryland

marble falls

(56,353 posts)
2. We need to know these are real people ...
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 09:02 PM
Jun 2019


Zoe Spears, 23


The woman killed just a few weeks before:



27-year-old Ashanti Carmon, was fatally shot on March 30, a few blocks away from Thursday night's murder, police said.

No cause for any of this.
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