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Another trans murder in Detroit
Late last week, an activist organization reported the murder of a transgender individual. According to a Michigan Equality statement, on 14 July the body of 25-year-old Ashton O’Hara was discovered in a Detroit field.
‘Ashton did identify as transgender, and was genderfluid,’ the statement said. ‘He was still using male pronouns at the time of his untimely death.’
Michigan Live reports the Detroit Police Department arrested a suspect, Larry B. Gaulding. He faces first-degree murder charges and a trial starts next month.
According to Ashton’s mother, Rebecca O’Hara, the city’s officers deserve praise for the work on her child’s death.
‘They have been so considerate,’ she said in the Michigan Equality release. ‘I was shocked that they actually care about who he was. They were so sincere.’
This is the second transgender murder in Detroit in the past month. On 8 August Amber Monroe’s body was discovered. The Anti-Violence Project reports that Ashton’s murder is, this year, ‘the fourteenth homicide of a transgender or gender non-conforming person, 12 of whom were transgender women of color.’
“As we remember Ashton O’Hara and all of the transgender and gender non-conforming we have
lost to violence, we demand immediate action on a national level to end this violent epidemic,’ Shelby
Chestnut, co-director of community organizing and public advocacy at the AVP, said in a statement.
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James Withers
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