Damn, we've lost two more girls like us to anti-trans violence. Once again both transwomen who were killed were under age 35.We'll start this sad news off with what transpired in New York last weekend.
21 year old aspiring fashion designer Islan Nettles was out with a group of trans girlfriends when they ran across a group of men around 11 PM EDT Saturday at the corner of West 148th Street and Eighth Ave.
When the men realized they were girls like us, they began spouting transphobic slurs and savagely throwing punches Nettles was taken to Harlem Hospital where she remained on life support for several days until she was taken off of it August 22 and subsequently died of her injuries.
The anti-trans hate attack took place across the street from the NYPD Police Service Area 6 station and resulted in the initial arrest of 20 year old Paris Wilson. The investigation by police detectives was thrown course by a false confession of one of Wilson's friends and the belief that Nettles' injuries weren't fatally serious.
Nettle's mother and Harlem based TBLG groups are not happy with the ridiculaously low bail set in this case. The Manhattan D.A. requested $7,500 bail during the first court appearance but Judge Melissa Crane set bail at $4,000 bond or $2,000 cash after Wilson's attorney argued that he was no flight risk.
"It's troubling that such a terrible attack would happen and there was no awareness and the person got let back out on the street with a small bail," said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center said according to a DNAInfo story.
Meanwhile on the Left Coast it was 32 year old aspiring actress Domonique Newburn, who was found dead in her Fontana, CA apartment at 4:30 PM PDT on August 20 Newburn appeared in the YouTube web series Hollywood House Boys, a show about gay and transgender friends Witnesses told police they saw a bare chested man leaving the apartment in what appears to be Newburn's vehicle, a black four door 2004 Mercedes C240 with the California license plate 7AAY925
Suspect in this case was described as Black, in his late 20s to early 30s, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with an average build.
Fontana police at this time aren't investigating the murder as a hate crime and are looking for the suspect in this case.
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