D.C. police are seeking help from the public in identifying one or more suspects they say assaulted a transgender woman shortly after 4 a.m.
on Saturday, Oct. 14, that prompted the woman to enter the path of a vehicle in the 900 block of U Street, N.W., that fatally struck her.
Police identified the victim as 30-year-old A’nee Roberson of Northwest D.C. A police statement did not identify Roberson as being transgender, but D.C.
transgender rights advocate Earline Budd said officials with the department’s LGBT Liaison Unit informed her and others that Roberson was trans.