Human Rights Campaign. Local TV station WGN reported on the crime but did not give Banks’s name. She was pronounced dead at the scene.Howard Brown Health, which serves a largely LGBTQ+ clientele, noted Banks’s death and identified her in a Friday Facebook post.
The group also called out anti-trans violence in general.“We are experiencing an epidemic of anti-trans violence, especially violence against Black transgender women, that has been at crisis levels for far too long in this country,” Howard Brown officials wrote.