Black Trans Woman Duval Princess Shot and Killed in Jacksonville
Human Rights Campaign reports.Her body was found inside a car at a shopping center after authorities received a call from the center’s security guard that he had found a person unresponsive, according to First Coast News (which misgenders and deadnames Princess).Family members believe Princess went to the shopping center to meet someone she knew.Security camera footage shows a person waiting at the shopping center.
As Princess pulls her car up, the person goes to the driver’s side, then to the passenger side, then back to the driver’s side.
They finally go back to the passenger side and get in Princess’s car. TV station WJAX (which also misgenders and deadnames Princess) reports that a flash is seen in the footage and the person leaves the vehicle and flees. “It is with great pain and extreme disbelief that we respond to yet another violent death of someone from our community mere days into the new year.
Duval Princess was barely able to live as her most authentic self when such a senseless act of violence stole that journey from her,” said Tori Cooper, HRC’s director of community engagement for its Transgender Justice Initiative, in a statement.
