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A 23-year-old trans man was fatally shot outside a dollar store in Lynchburg, Virginia. At around 5:55pm on Monday afternoon (12 June), police arrived at the Family Dollar at 2029 Fort Avenue to find Novaa Ru Watson suffering from “malicious wounds”. He was rushed to the Lynchburg General Hospital where he later died of his injuries, the Lynchburg Police Department said in a statement. Police officials confirmed to The News & Avenue that investigators are looking into whether the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute. They confirmed that a child was found at the scene of the shootin...

Poe Black, a 'warrior' trans man who bravely fought for Two Spirit, Indigenous folk in Slab City, California, has been murdered. He was 21.

Thomas Hardin. (Facebook) Thomas Hardin, a 35-year-old trans woman, was murdered this month in a brutal killing spree across two US states. Hardin, described by those who knew her as an affable wisecracker, was killed at her home in York, South Carolina on 2 May. Local officials have not confirmed a cause of death, but witnesses say she was shot. It’s believed that she was killed by a man she had been romantically involved with, and who is also accused of shooting two other people that same day. The suspect, Tyler Terry, has been linked to killings across both South Carolina and in St Louis...

Sophie Vásquez (L) and Danny Henson, two trans women murdered on the very same day. (Facebook) Two trans women, Sophie Vásquez and Danny Henson, were slain on the very same day in the US. Vásquez, a Latinx 36-year-old, was fatally shot in her own apartment in Brookhaven, Georgia, on 4 May, according to Details of her death remain scarce at the time of writing, but the Brookhaven Police Department confirmed to community leaders that she was killed in the Gwinnett County suburb. “She was misgendered and deadnamed in the police report,” said Darlene Darlington Wagner, president of Transge...

Black Transgender Woman Murdered In Florida, Suspect Remains At Large On 5/5/21 at 8:24 AM EDT Officers responded to Palmetto Park Apartments on West Avenue shortly after 8 a.m. on Saturday. The body of 49-year-old Kerry Washington was found behind one of the apartment buildings, a spokesperson for the Clearwater Police Department told Newsweek. In tributes on social media, family and friends spelled Washington's name as Keri, who was also known as "Bobo." In a news release posted on Facebook on Monday, the police department said 59-year-old Arthur Benjamin Jr. is wanted for first-degree mur...