Vigil remembers transgender murder victim

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Vigil remembers transgender murder victim
Tyra Trent's body found in vacant home in Northwest Baltimore last month

By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun
10:23 p.m. EST, March 4, 2011

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-transgender-vigil-20110304,0,2382383.story

There was Jana, and then Chrissie and others. And then there was Tyra.

The names were among those on a long list of local transgender people who succumbed to violence or drug abuse or homelessness, said Robyn Webb, who rattled them off at a candlelight vigil Friday for the latest victim, Tyra Trent. While Webb, 54, never knew Trent, she understood her struggles and knew of her death.

The 25-year-old, born Anthony Trent and known as Tyra, was killed last month. Her body was found Feb. 19 in a vacant, city-owned home in the 3300 block of Virginia Ave. in Northwest Baltimore.