25-Year-Old Trans Woman Miia Love Parker Shot Dead in Philadelphia
CBS affiliate reports. A friend took her to a hospital, but she did not survive.Chester police are searching for Saad Najeed Dwight, 38.
He is likely armed and dangerous, police said, advising members of the public not to confront him but to call authorities instead.
He will face charges of criminal homicide, third-degree murder, and possession of a firearm not to be carried without a license, according to the TV station.
Police have not said what they believe to be his motive.“Miia’s friends describe her as someone who lit up a room when she entered,” Pgh Lesbian Correspondents reports. “Her Facebook profiles lists among her likes — the TV show Pose, puppy memes, and lots of shopping and fashion pages.” Friends organized a vigil the weekend after her death.“Friends remember Miia Love Parker as a brilliant light that brought joy into every room she entered,” Tori Cooper, the Human Rights Campaign’s director of community engagement for its Transgender Justice Initiative, said in a press release. “That light was extinguished far too soon.
