Black Transgender Woman Kitty Monroe Fatally Shot in Tennessee
Memphis’s ABC affiliate reports. He told police he had been inside a home with Monroe, and she ordered him to leave and pulled a gun on him.
They struggled, both fell down a flight of stairs, and then Ward took out his own gun and shot Monroe several times, according to a police affidavit cited by the station.
He called the police from another location, and they came to the scene of the altercation and found Monroe, who died there.Monroe is being remembered as “a beautiful person” and an animal lover.“Kitty was a beautiful person; her energy was always light and fun,” Jasmine Tasaki, founder and executive director of WeCareTN, a Memphis-based organization that assists trans people, said in a Human Rights Campaign press release. “Her family and friends will miss her.
I hope we will hold closer to each other in this dark time. Memphis has lost another beautiful person, but we’ve gained an angel.”“Kitty Monroe should still be alive today to spend time with her beloved friends and four dogs,” added Tori Cooper, director of community engagement for HRC’s Transgender Justice Initiative. “We must remember her name as we continue the fight against this epidemic of violence on Black transgender women.
