These Are the Trans People Killed in 2019

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Dana Martin
Transgender Americans are facing an epidemic of violence. Twenty-four of them were known to be homicide victims in 2018, although the actual number is likely higher, as undoubtedly some victims were misgendered by police or media, or their deaths not reported at all. The majority of victims in any year tracked by The Advocate have been women of color.

Into mid-September of 2019, 19 murders of trans Americans have been reported, all but one being women of color. The first victim was Dana Martin, 31, who was found shot to death in a vehicle January 6 on the side of a road in Montgomery, Ala. She lived in Hope Hull, an unincorporated area near Montgomery. Some media outlets misgendered her, but local activists said she was an African-American trans woman, apparently shot while she was driving.

Jazzaline Ware
Jazzaline Ware, a Black trans woman, was found dead in her Memphis apartment in March, and her death is being investigated as a homicide, according to the Transgender Law Center and local activists. No additional information is available.

Ashanti Carmon
Ashanti Carmon, 27, of Alexandria, Va., was found shot to death March 31 on a street in Fairmount Heights, Md., just across the state line from Washington, D.C. Those who encountered her at a D.C. drop-in center run by LGBTQ support group HIPS found her "delightful," HIPS staffer and trans activist Earline Budd told the Washington Blade. Carmon was planning to marry Philip Williams, who told a D.C. TV station that his six-year relationship with her was "the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done in my life." Upon learning of her death, "everything just went on pause for me," he added.

More: https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/5/22/these-are-trans-people-killed-2019#media-gallery-media-2

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1. The Dayton shooter's sibling was a trans-man.

From the above article:

Jordan Cofer
Jordan Cofer, a transgender man, was the first casualty of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, August 4. The gunman, who died in a shootout with police, was Connor Betts, Cofer's brother. Betts opened fire in a popular Dayton entertainment district, killing nine people. Several media accounts identified Cofer as Betts's sister and deadnamed him, but the website Splinter and the National Center for Transgender Equality said Cofer was a trans man, although not out to his family, so his gender identity was likely not a factor in his death. Cofer had recently been an intern for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana.

"We are deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Jordan as well as eight others in this tragic and violent act," the NCTE's Gillian Branstetter wrote in a statement sent to The Advocate. "Mass gun violence is an epidemic in this country and deserving of swift and immediate action by lawmakers at all levels of government. We join the nation in mourning for every community impacted by gun violence."