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Pinckney pled guilty to providing false statements to investigators about Doe's murder and her assailant, Daqua Ritter.

ALLENDALE, S.C. (WJBF) – A South Carolina man has been sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in October 2023 to obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of a transgender woman. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Xavier Pinckney, 24, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for providing false and misleading information […]

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Suicide rates for queer and trans people are disproportionately high. They're also routinely targets of violence and hate crimes.While some states have protections for queer and trans people, many other states have passed laws that restrict the rights and visibility of transgender individuals.The stories of Nex Benedict and Dime Doe illustrate both those trends.Benedict died by suicide the day after a physical altercation in their school bathroom. Benedict had been bullied by other students for more than a year.Dime Doe, a Black trans woman, was killed in 2019. Last month a man who had be...

Text messages and timeline of Aug. 4, 2019, were among the crucial evidence that led at least one juror to convict Daqua Ritter of murdering transgender woman, Dime Doe.