Newsweek reached out to the Alabama Attorney General's office for comment.According to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, 2 other individuals were injured during the shooting at the holiday party where Jaheim Pugh was killed.Data released by the FBI in November indicated that 16.7 percent of hate crimes reported in the U.S.
during 2019 targeted members of the LGBTQ community, with 2.7 percent of those crimes being committed against transgender or gender non-conforming individuals.