SF police open investigation after Black transwoman reported abducted near Fisherman's Wharf
A young Black transwoman was reportedly abducted Monday, March 7, near her last known address at a hotel in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
She was last heard from almost 16 hours later in what friends described as "multiple calls, each lasting less than 30 seconds..."According to media releases sent out by friends via Twitter, Isa Dessalines, 20, a recent arrival to the Bay Area, was on the phone with a friend around 11:30 p.m.
Monday when she was allegedly abducted not far from the Hotel Caza at 1300 Columbus Avenue, where it is believed she had been staying.
Friends reported hearing a car engine, a car door closing, and a struggle between Dessalines and a man, "in which Dessalines was heard saying 'OK, OK, I'll get in.'"Later, in what friends described as a very short voice message, Dessalines "was heard sobbing, saying, 'I don't want to die'' as a man's voice repeatedly told her to shut up, according to the release.
