May 26, 2017
Contact Monica Roberts BTWI Media Chair
Carmarion D. Anderson BTWI Founding National Director
855-255-8636 Ext 11
media@blacktranswomen.org
It is with a heavy heart that we at Black Transwomen, Inc must release a statement concerning the murder of another Black trans woman
Sherrell Faulkner was attacked and found suffering from trauma near a dumpster on November 30, 2016 in the gay friendly Plaza-Midwood neighborhood in northeast Charlotte, NC. She succumbed to her injuries on May 16.
The attack we must point took place after a contentious North Carolina gubernatorial election in which transphobia was served up by the North Carolina Republican Party and its incumbent governor Pat McCrory that he subsequently lost.
The 46 year old Faulkner is now the 11th trans woman in the US we have lost to anti-trans violence. All eleven of them have been women of color, with now ten of them being African American.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg PD is classifying this case as a homicide investigation, and if you have any information that will lead to the arrest, conviction and incarceration of the perpetrators of this crime against our fallen sister you are urged to call Charlotte Mecklenburg Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600 or 704-432-TIPS (8477)
Dee Dee Watters will be doing a moment of silence for Sherrell starting at 9 PM CDT
Rest in power and peace, Sherrell. We will say your name because your life mattered, and we won't rest until the people who took you from us are brought to justice.
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