CRIME
Trans Teen Murdered in Chicago
One 19-year-old's life ends just blocks from the April's trans murder.
BY DIANE ANDERSON-MINSHALL
AUGUST 16 2012 3:44 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/crime/2012/08/16/trans-teen-murdered-chicago

Photo: The Advocate

A gender variant teen has been murdered in Chicago a mere three blocks from where Paige Clay, another trans women, was found murdered in April.

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Tiffany Gooden, 19, was found in an abandoned building on the city's West Side, according to Windy City Times. Reporter Kate Sosin says that Gooden had sufferered multiple stab wounds and incised wounds and the death has been ruled a homicide.

Scholar Kay Brown has estimated that 1 in 12 transgender people in the U.S. will end their life as murder victims, the marjority of them transgender women like Gooden and Clay.

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Body found on West Side identified as gender-variant youth
by Kate Sosin, Windy City Times
2012-08-15

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Body-found-on-West-Side-identified-as-gender-variant-youth/39092.html

A young person found deceased in an abandoned building on the city's West Side has been identified by community members as a gender-variant young person.

Donta Gooden, who also went by "Tiffany," 19, was found murdered on Tuesday night, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

According to transgender activist Joy Morris, Gooden's friends reported that Gooden went missing over the weekend and was last seen Friday or Saturday night.

Gooden was found just three blocks from the site of another transgender murder earlier this year. Paige Clay, a rising luminary in Chicago's ball scene was found on the 4500 Block of West Jackson Boulevard in April.

Turner, who organized remembrances for Clay, noted the close proximity of the two incidents.

"We still have not received any information on what's going on," he said, noting that Clay's murder remains unsolved. Turner said he plans to organize an event for Gooden, the details of which have yet to be announced.

Morris said that Gooden and Clay were friends.