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Hey Everybody..i Gotta Let Everyone Know That We Have Losted Another Young, Beautiful,sister....a Senseless,despicable,hate Crime....yea,i Said It..hate Crime.this Happen Around The First Of This Month.her Name Is Ms.tylia Mack...a Young Woman Who Had Everything To Live For.you Almost Never Hear About This In Mainstream Media.this Is The Site That You Can Read About This Crime ...also There Is A Video Clip Of Her Funeral.(washblade.com) Such A Sad Story!!
Sad to see anyone die. She was a cutie too. What were the particulars of the story?Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboMan
You Can Get The 411 At Washblade.comQuote:
Originally Posted by bigdicki
This is what I gathered from WashingtonBlade:
About 250 people gathered amid raindrops in Northwest D.C. last week to remember a 21-year-old transgender woman who was stabbed to death as she and a friend were walking to the offices of a transgender services organization.
Police said they found Joshua Mack, who used the name Tyli’a “NaNa Boo” Mack, and another transgender woman suffering from stab wounds about 2:30 p.m. Aug. 26 on the sidewalk in front of 209 Q St., N.W.
Mack was pronounced dead about a half hour later at Howard University Hospital, police said. The second victim was treated at an area hospital for stab wounds and released Aug. 28, according to people who know her. Police said the second victim’s identity was being withheld because of her status as a witness.
Officials with Transgender Health Empowerment, the D.C. group that organized the vigil, joined activists in calling on city leaders, including Mayor Adrian Fenty, to speak out more forcefully against hate crimes, violence and harassment targeting the LGBT community.
Earline Budd of THE said Mack was a long-time client of the organization, which provides social services and HIV prevention programs for transgender people.
Mack and the friend accompanying her at the time she was attacked were walking to and within blocks of the THE offices, at North Capitol and P streets, N.W., friends of Mack said.
As of Wednesday, police said they had no suspects in the Mack slaying or in the stabbing of the second victim.
Police listed the incident as a “possible” hate crime based on preliminary findings of their investigation, said acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit.
“I want to simply assure you that all the resources available to the detectives of our homicide branch are being brought to them,” Parson said at the Aug. 28 vigil. “They have been working non-stop since this happened and they will continue to work this case until we bring it to a closure.”
Among those attending the vigil were more than a dozen members of Mack’s family, including both parents and a brother and sister. The family members joined Parson and friends of the slain transgender woman in calling on possible witnesses to come forward to help police apprehend the person responsible for the killing.
“All I want them to do is come and tell what they know,” said Beverlyn Mack, Tyli’a Mack’s mother.
At a news conference one day earlier at THE headquarters, Beverlyn Mack and other family members said they knew Tyli’a Mack was transgender and that the family respected and loved her.
“My child was born like everyone else — through a mother’s womb,” she said. “And I don’t think it’s fair for other people to take other people’s lives.”
Christopher Dyer, director of the mayor’s Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Affairs, read a letter at the vigil from Fenty to Mack’s family expressing his condolences over the death of Tyli’a Mack.
Some of the people at the vigil said the mayor and other city government officials have not done enough to address anti-trans and anti-gay hate crimes. They pointed to police reports showing the number of LGBT-related hate crimes have increased in the past two years.
“I want to say that GLOV stands with the transgender community completely,” said Chris Farris, co-chair of Gays & Lesbian Opposing Violence. “We all stand united in asking the mayor of this city to condemn hate crimes against the LGBT community. Stop sending letters and start showing up.”
Gay D.C. City Council member David Catania (I-At Large) told the gathering that city leaders should speak more forcefully than they have against anti-LGBT violence.
“This is an opportunity for every leader in this city, whether elected, whether appointed, whether in the pulpit, to stand up and say this is not acceptable,” Catania said.
“To the family, our profound condolences,” he said. “But to every one of us, let’s go to all of our leaders and say, ‘Enough is enough.’ We want to hear Sunday in the pulpits in this city that this kind of attack is unacceptable, that the lives of GLBT members are every bit as valuable as every other citizen in this city.”
Carla “Magoo” Peatross, a resident of the street where Mack was stabbed and who identifies as transgender, said she was certain that the person responsible for Mack’s death doesn’t live in the immediate neighborhood.
“We have young transgenders and we have older transgenders on this block,” Peatross said. “And they accept them. They never have problems.”
Budd escorted Mack’s family to the location on the sidewalk in front of 209 Q St., N.W., where Mack and her friend were found. Bloodstains were still visible on the sidewalk before rain that fell during the vigil began to wash them away.
I'm surprised our resident "transgender advocate" didn't bring this to our attention since it happened in the Washington DC, Virginia area. Cudos to TurboMan who lives in Georgia!
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Very sad.
Checked our databases on those names and no match.
Thanks SURFERQuote:
Originally Posted by tvsurfer
Mabye its just my naivety, but it never ceases to amaze me that people do these kind of things to each other. Never lets forget the intolerance of some in this world towards others. Here two people are just going along their way and minding their business and this salt of the earth creep couldn't help himself but to do this.
Watching programs like The First 48, Crime360 I realize what man will do to each other but it still makes you wonder how some people can lack any ounce of morality for their fellow mankind.
May she rest in peace. She seemed like a beautiful young woman, who was robbed of life much too soon. God be with her.
This is sad news indeed. DC is a terribly violent city, hopefully they'll capture whoever did this.
Thanks Surfer.... you still da man!Quote:
Originally Posted by TVSURFER
im glad this is gettin some sort of coverage to show what kind of hate lurks here at home..i feel soo bad for these girls..i have heard recently of three tgs who were murdered,violently too,in the last couple of months back in new orleans..some of them even had fotos up on here.......or on the franks site...
Have'nt Heard About The Three Murder's In New Orlean's....and You Say Some Of Them Are On This Site Or Frank's Site?....inquisitive Mind's Wanna Know....so Talk To Us!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronk
May she rest in peace.
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one girl was murdered in nola..the other in mississippi by a boyfriend(she was one of the ones on here but yanked i think due to model release probs) and the last one got killed in houston...she was on franks i believe..she used to work at the house of blues,nola ,remember her????
Sorry...can't Say That I Do.Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronk
sad
RIP