Haven A Bailey, a 25-year-old white trans man, was shot to death by police in Illinois, US, on May 24 after he was seen carrying a pellet gun which was mistaken for a pistol.
According to the Daily Herald, police were responding to a 911 report that a man was walking around Villa Park with a gun. Officers arrived at the scene and subsequently shot Bailey four times after he refused to drop the pellet gun.Bailey was taken to hospital but later pronounced dead, after which officers recovered a “black pellet gun made to look like a Sig Sauer 1911 pistol” from him.