Oct. death sheds light on misunderstood community
Family speaks about transgendered lifestyle
Darren Neal Green, Jr. 25, also known as "Dee" was stabbed to death October 26, 2009 on Montpelier Street near Adams Park in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood. Police have charged 20-year-old Larry Douglas in her death and he is to stand trial at the end of April on a charge of first-degree murder. Green, a transgender male, was starting the name change process and was trying to get her high school equivalency diploma. (Baltimore Sun / April 22, 2010)
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun
5:03 p.m. EDT, April 25, 2010
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-transgender-dee-green-20100425,0,4927574.storyShe liked cropped jackets and skinny jeans. Her favorite hair color was fire-engine red.
On the streets of lower Charles Village, the 24-year-old who dropped out of school at the age of 14 went by the name April Green, or "Miss Dee," or simply "Dee."
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Death sheds light on transgendered community
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/04/death_sheds_light_on_transgend.htmlApril Green. Or "Miss Dee." Or Darren Neal Green Jr.
Regardless of the name, or the sexual orientation, Green died a violent death on the streets of Baltimore, the type of death that unfortunately too too often goes unnoticed, drowned out in other violence.
She was a prostitute, and may have been killed by a man she picked up, but that is just one of many possible motives, and the commentators posting notes on the store are speculating when they suggest her "trick" for the evening discovered the "she" was really a "he" and killed her.
