South Carolina Man Found Guilty of Killing Transgender Woman
The Associated Press. Desperate to keep the affair secret, Ritter lured Doe to a remote area outside of Allendale on August 4, 2019, shooting her three times in the head with a .22 caliber handgun.
He then burned the clothes he was wearing during the crime, disposed of the murder weapon, and lied to law enforcement about his whereabouts.Ritter had told police during an interview that he did not see Doe on the day she was killed.
But body camera video from a traffic stop of Doe showed Ritter’s distinctive left wrist tattoo on a person in the passenger seat of her car.
Prosecutors also presented DNA evidence showing that Ritter had been inside Doe’s car.Additionally, several people testified that they had seen Ritter ride away in a silver car with tinted windows — a vehicle that Doe had previously been seen driving — only to later return in a new outfit and appearing “on edge.”One of Ritter’s acquaintances testified at trial that he saw Ritter empty his book bag into a fire in a barrel that a group of his friends had built.
