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Iowa Community Mourns Death of Gender-Fluid Teen

Started by traci_k, March 18, 2016, 07:01:24 AM

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March 18, 2016, 07:01:24 AM
Iowa Community Mourns Death of Gender-Fluid Teen

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/3/16/iowa-community-mourns-death-gender-fluid-teen-kedariekandicee-johnson

The Advocate.com
By Cleis Abeni
March 16 2016 8:48 PM EDT

Katrina Johnson moved her family from Chicago to Burlington, Iowa, to escape rising violence in the big city, reports the Des Moines Register. She settled in the small city of around 50,000 residents in a culturally diverse, low-income neighborhood called South Hills. Her family thrived. Then the unthinkable happened.

On March 2, Burlington police discovered the body of Johnson's 16-year-old child, a black gender-fluid teen who went by the names Kedarie and Kandicee, at approximately 11:30 p.m., according to local newspaper The Hawk Eye. Her child had been shot several times, and their body was left in an alley. The family's obituary records the teen's time of death as 11:44 p.m.
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It is with a heavy heart I post this Senseless Tragedy. Tears.
Traci Melissa Knight
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