Transgender
woman Nedra Sequence Morris, 50, was found dead in a pool of blood Saturday on
a street in Opa-locka, Fla.
Morris’s
family said she was shot in the head at another location and her body dumped
there, South Florida TV station WTVJ reports. Miami-Dade County police have not
confirmed this and have released few details about the case.
Morris’s
friends and family, who called her Sequence, held a vigil at the site where she
was found, with about 100 people attending. “We pray that God speaks to us, we
don’t go out with a vengeance, that we know justice will be served,” a cousin
told attendees, according to WTVJ.
An aunt of
Morris’s, identified by the station only as Juanita, said her niece had
encountered some hostility for being trans. Juanita said she hoped that wasn’t
the motivation for the killer. “I pray to God nobody was that ignorant this
time and day,” she said.
Another
relative at the vigil said killings like Morris’s “hurt the whole LGBTQ
community.”
Police are
continuing to investigate and are looking for a 2017 Jaguar F-PACE that was
seen leaving the scene of the crime. They ask that anyone with information call
Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS; callers have the option of
remaining anonymous.
Morris
is at least the 14th trans, nonbinary, or
gender-nonconforming American to have died by violence this year, after 2021
saw a record 57 such deaths reported. There are likely
many more, given that police or media often misgender or deadname victims, or
their deaths are not reported at all.
SOURCE: ADVOCATE
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