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Title: Vigil remembers transgender murder victim
Post by: Shana A on March 05, 2011, 09:22:55 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 05, 2011, 09:22:55 AM
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 (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.
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 (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.