CoCo Chanel Wortham, a Black trans woman, was murdered Aug. 7 in Dallas. Family and friends visiting from Kansas City, Kan., last week for her memorial service asked the Dallas LGBTQ community to “keep her name alive.” Family and friends have identified the transgender woman shot to death Saturday night, Aug.
7, in downtown Dallas as CoCo Chanel Wortham, originally from Kansas City, Kan. Wortham’s sister, Summer “Diva” Rodriguez-White and friends Michelle Barrett and Dymond Rocke traveled to Dallas from Kansas City last week to attend a memorial service in her honor, and asked that the Dallas LGBTQ community “help us keep her name alive.” At the memorial service for CoCo Chanel Wortham Rocke said that Wortham was “a giving and kind person