D.C. Transgender Community Outraged After Fatal Stabbing

[Shana A]

D.C. Transgender Community Outraged After Fatal Stabbing
posted 08/27/09 6:02 pm

http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0809/653863.html?ref=n8

WASHINGTON - There's fear in D.C.'s transgender community after a stabbing that left one person dead and another injured Wednesday afternoon.

Family and friends of the victim gathered outside a transgender help center blocks from the crime Thursday. There, they denounced what happened to 21-year-old Joshua Mack who went by the name Nana Boo.

"I don't like it [be]cause my child was born just like everyone else to a mother's womb and I don't think it's fair for others to take other people's lives," said the victim's mother.

[V M]

This kind of news hurts every time 

Virginia is cry for Nana Boo and her friend 

[LordKAT]

Nana Boo was outspoken and may have behaved foolishly. I do not condone what was done. I do feel people do not need to put themselves in danger if they don't have to.

[Syne]

She stood up for herself in one of the worst places to live in the US and paid the price. Wish I had known her and wish that they find and fry the person who killed her.