CHICAGO — Police confirmed Friday that a body discovered in an abandoned building in a west side Chicago neighborhood known as K-Town was that of 19-year-old Donta Gooden, a transgender female.
A spokesperson for the Cook County medical examiner’s office said that an autopsy determined that Gooden was stabbed to death and that her death has been ruled a homicide.
Donta Gooden
Gooden — who identified as female and was known as Tiffany — was found just three blocks from where Paige Clay, 23, another transgender woman, was found shot to death in April.
June LaTrobe, public policy director of the transgender activist group Illinois Gender Advocates, said that transgender women of color “are the most vulnerable members of our community,” reported WBBM-TV.
LaTrobe said there are very little opportunities for such women, because, “sometimes the obstacles are just unbelievable. Here is someone murdered for simply being themselves. It gets … frustrating doesn’t even quite put it.”Rick Garcia, a longtime local LGBT activist said, “oftentimes when folks like this are murdered or brutalized, it’s, ‘Well, you know, they brought it on themselves,’ or ‘What do you expect?’” Garcia said he was working with police to make sure these two victims, and others like them, aren’t re-victimized by not being priority cases.
Chicago Police said they believe that the cases of both women are unrelated and have visited some nearby businesses in hopes surveillance cameras might have captured relevant images.
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sad
sheeeesh
:(
Wow, thats sad
How sad!
this is sad
:(
:c
… WTF-is-GOING on-IN-Chicago?!?
so sad… what is wrong with people.. :-(
Terrible, terrible news.
Very sad.
So sad
I don’t ever feel safe in my Chicago neighborhood, being genderqueer :(
In my prayers. Im so sorry. She looks so beautiful as her self. :’(
awful…simply awful.
How can people be so hurtful
yea
That’s horrible! My thoughts are with both families.
How sad… She was so young and very pretty, too..
unrelated crimes? 3 months and 3 blocks apart? i dont think so,
Sounds like a hate-filled serial killer to me? QUICK CALL HOTCHNER, DEREK MORGAN, GIDEON, REID, JJ, AND PRENTIS! (But no seriously, why won’t they admit this is clearly a serial killer or group of serial killers targeting transgendered women?) URG, this is what can happen to homo/transphobic closet cases who are convinced by religious nutbags that there is something wrong with them and they’re evil, instead of being loved and accepted for who they are… they can come to believe they are evil, and become serial killers. THANKS FOR SCREWING PEOPLE UP IN THE HEAD, CONSERVATIVE RIGHT. “Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, someday we will, become what we see… Please, be careful with me. I’m sensitive and I’d like to stay that way.”
sad :(
I hope She get life
:n(
:((
Someone is sick, sick, sick.