TransGriot Note: BTWI Statement concerning the death of Alphonza Watson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2017
Contact: Monica Roberts BTWI Media Chair
Carmarion Anderson BTWI Founding President
855-255-8636 Ext 11
media@blacktranswomen.org
Black Transwomen, Inc is once again dismayed and saddened to note the death of another of one of our trans sisters in 38 year old Alphonza Watson of Baltimore, MD.
She was found shot in the stomach in the 2400 block of Guilford Ave and later died from her gunshot wound at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Two males were seen leaving the scene in a dark colored vehicle
She is the eighth trans woman., and the seventh Black transwoman to die in 2017.
If you have information that will bring her killers to justice, you are urged to call the Baltimore Police Department at 410-396-2100, text a tip at 443-902-4824 or call Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP (866-756 -2587).
Rest in power and peace ,sister. We won't rest until the persons who killed you are brought to justice
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