Posted on Advocate.com December 07, 2011 03:40:00 PM ET
Man Sentenced in D.C. Shooting of Trans Woman
By Winston Gieseke

http://www.advocate.com/Crime/Man_Sentenced_in_DC_Shooting_of_Trans_Woman/

A Washington, D.C., man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting a transgender woman in September.

TheWashington Post  reports that Darryl Willard pleaded guilty to aggravated assault while armed for the attack, which occurred September 12.

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Willard Sentenced to Eight Years
LGBT groups slam plea deal for man who shot transgender woman

by John Riley
Published on December 8, 2011, 6:31am

http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6844

The man who pleaded guilty to shooting a transgender woman in the neck and trying to rob her after she refused his request for oral sex was sentenced Dec. 6 to eight years in prison, angering local LGBT groups who felt the sentence was too light.

Darryl Willard Jr., 21, pleaded guilty in September to one count of aggravated assault while armed – a charge carrying a minimum sentence of five years, and a maximum of 30 years and a $10,000 fine – for shooting 26-year-old Gima Brown at point-blank range in Southeast D.C.'s Shipley Terrace neighborhood. The bullet struck Brown in the neck, puncturing both her lungs and lodging in her chest near her heart, where it remains.

   Another violent creep is off the streets 


With the bullet still lodged in her chest near her heart the victim could still suffer complications from the shooting though