Transgender Homicides Hit National Record with Virginia Killing
Detectives are investigating the death of a transgender woman who was found critically wounded early Sunday on the south side of Richmond, Va., and later died.听
Noonie Norwood, 30, was found early Sunday morning when Richmond police responded to a reported shooting. Norwood was unresponsive and transported to a local hospital where she died nine hours later, police said.
Police are looking for a man听driving a dark-colored sedan who may have been nearby at the time of the shooting, the reported.
The said the killing pushes the number of transgender homicides to a record level. Norwood鈥檚 death is the 23rd transgender homicide this year. Last year, 22 transgender homicides were reported.听
The said in a statement that there is a 鈥渃ontinuing, alarming, multi-year trend鈥� showing people of color and transgender and gender non-conforming people "continue to make up the majority of victims of hate violence.鈥澨�
鈥淣oony Norwood鈥檚 death is a heartbreaking milestone for our communities,鈥� said Shelby Chestnut, director of community organizing and public advocacy听at the Anti-Violence Project鈥檚 national office in New York. 鈥淚t is on all of us to address this crisis of violence affecting transgender and gender non-conforming people in this country, and the transphobia, misogyny and racism that is at the root of this violence.鈥�
In Richmond, a said detectives investigating the Norwood's death 鈥渉ave interviewed a few people, but there are others they would like to hear from, especially those who were in the area 鈥� or may have known the victim.鈥�
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