Wednesday, December 08, 2010

*Sigh*-Another GLBT Murder In Jamaica

The Hate on Transpeople for the Holidays Campaign continues around the world.  

The latest installment comes from Jamaica, the most GLBT phobic of all the Caribbean islands.  

Rod 2.0 beta posted this story.   In the comment threads someone posted a link to the Jamaica Star tabloid story that I'm posting.   

J-FLAG  has these details from their website and adds more details like the date of the murder being  November 3.

Since Charm was presenting as female, I'm applying AP Stylebook rules per TransGriot policy

The body of a person dressed in female clothing was found with multiple stab and chop wounds yesterday afternoon on the Half-Way Tree Road in St Andrew.
 
The dead person has been identified as 22 year old Charm Ashwan Williams.


Reports from the Constabulary Communications Network are that around 2 p.m. citizens saw the body lying face down at 61 Half-Way Tree Road and alerted the police.   The police are said to have responded, the body removed to the morgue and the crime scene processed.

The Half-Way Tree police are investigating the incident.

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