Tag: murder

A candle light vigil to remember Deon Brown is set for 5 p.m. outside the Nashville beauty salon where he used to work at 2225 Murfreesboro Pike. Family and friends including the LGBT community are mourning the death of a 24-year-old man found brutally killed this week on the property of a West Nashville trucking business The body of Deon Brown was discovered about 6:22 a.m. Monday in the lot of Western Express at 7135 Centennial Place. Metro police said Brown, who...

Victims Were Mother and Daughter A double homicide in Camden County, Missouri is being investigated as an anti-LGBT hate crime by local and federal officials. Steven Ray Endsley, 54, was arrested for the murders of out-lesbian Danielle M. Smith, 27, and her mother, Teresa A. Jackson, 61, on Saturday. Smith’s and Jackson’s bodies were discovered in the remains of their burned out trailer home on the morning of Aug 29, according to a press release. Their identities had not been released until their...

After writing a series of increasingly chilling Facebook posts, a Broadway dancer named Marcus Bellamy (pictured) has been charged with the murder of boyfriend Bernardo Almonte. The 32-year-old performer, who appeared in the beleaguered production Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, confessed to beating and strangling Almonte to death, saying he “did it for love.” “Forgive me,” the post reads. “I did it because I love you. I love you all. I loved him also. He told me love and hate are the same emotion.” "Forgive me. I...

A 28-year trans woman in Columbus, Ohio, was shot and then brutally beaten by her mother’s ex-boyfriend, who was living with the family at the time. Rae’Lynn Thomas is the 19th trans person known to have been murdered in the U.S. this year, and the fifth transgender women to have been killed in the past two months. Thomas’ mother, Renee Thomas, shared her daughter’s final words with the local news station: “Mom, please please don’t leave me. Mom, I’m dying,” she said....

Statistics: about 81 transgender people were beaten and murdered around the world this year. This is the number of the victims whose deaths were reported. But there are some deaths that remained unreported. Today it is the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. The first remembrance event was organized by Gwendolyn Ann Smith in Allston, Massachusetts to commemorate a trans woman of color, Rita Hester, who was killed in 1998. Every year the number of trans people murders grows extremely rapid worldwide. People need...

Transgenders belong to 1% of the world's population and yet, every 72 hours, one transgender is beaten up, harassed and even tortured to death. This year has become an epidemic of fatal violence towards transgender community, bringing its fatality rate higher than ever. Why are transgenders being murdered? With the growing LGBTQ visibility in the mainstream media this year, more people feel the urge to come out, thus, opening up doors to meet someone and build personal relationships that generates the foundation...