UPDT Dashad 'Sage' Smith Missing: Virginia Police Searching For Transgender Teen

[SandraJane]

HUFF POST- CRIME


Dashad 'Sage' Smith Missing: Virginia Police Searching For Transgender Teen

Posted: 11/28/2012 3:56 pm EST Updated: 11/28/2012 4:00 pm EST


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/dashad-smith-missing_n_2205836.html


Dashad Smith
Have you seen missing teen Dashad Smith?



Police in Virginia are searching for a transgender teen who has been missing for more than a week.

Dashad Smith, 19, also known as Sage, Sagey and Unique, was last seen Nov. 20, in the 500 block of West Main Street in Charlottesville. Smith was last seen wearing a black jacket, dark-gray sweatpants, a black scarf and gray boots, police said.

Smith was supposed to meeting a man for a date on the evening she disappeared, her father, Dean Smith, told The Huffington Post.

[Beth Andrea]

Hoping for the best...

[SandraJane]

Hoping for the best...

Me too...but after posting too many of these types of articles (one is too many ), it probably will not have a good ending. Only time will tell.

SJ

[eshaver]

Hummmmmmm, Charlottesville being a College town has it's diversity . Sadly, it also has a thousand places crime can be commited as it's proximity to Washington D C a scant hour North East . I'll be on the look out . ellen

[SandraJane]

Hummmmmmm, Charlottesville being a College town has it's diversity . Sadly, it also has a thousand places crime can be commited as it's proximity to Washington D C a scant hour North East . I'll be on the look out . ellen

Thank You Ellen!

[SandraJane]

The Daily Progress


Community continues for missing Charlottesville teen


Samantha Koon | Posted: Saturday, December 1, 2012 9:16 pm | Updated: 9:54 pm, Sat Dec 1, 2012.


http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/article_3cb53d6c-3c26-11e2-bd6f-0019bb30f31a.html


Alisha Henson and Latasha Grooms, center, search with community members Dec. 1 as well as friends and family for signs of Grooms' son, DaShad Smith, who has been missing since Nov. 20.




DaShad Laquinn "Sage" Smith was supposed to surprise his younger sisters at Thanksgiving. Instead, his family learned that he had gone missing.

Smith's roommate called the family that Thursday morning to say Smith never came home after leaving to meet a friend Tuesday evening on West Main Street.

"It was really hard for our family," Latasha Grooms, Smith's mother, said.

The 19-year-old was supposed to meet Erik McFadden at the Amtrak station on West Main Street, but McFadden told the police he never showed.

[SandraJane]

I sent a Personal e-mail to Samantha Koon at The Daily Progress;

Dear Ms. Koon,

In regards to the article "Community continues for missing Charlottesville teen", http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/article_3cb53d6c-3c26-11e2-bd6f-0019bb30f31a.html ,
I would like to ask why you did not use the appropriate pronouns concerning Dashad Smith as per the AP Style Guide? I first saw mention of Dashad's disappearance in a Huffington Post article, "Dashad 'Sage' Smith Missing: Virginia Police Searching For Transgender Teen", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/dashad-smith-missing_n_2205836.html . In the Huffington Post article, the author used pronouns appropriate to how Dashad was living her life or which gender. 


ASSOCIATED PRESS (2008)

transgender Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.

If that preference is not expressed, use the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals live publicly. See transsexual.


NEW YORK TIMES (2005)

transgender (adj.) is an overall term for people whose current identity differs from their sex at birth, whether or not they have changed their biological characteristics. Cite a person's transgender status only when it is pertinent and its pertinence is clear to the reader. Unless a former name is newsworthy or pertinent, use the name and pronouns (he, his, she, her, hers) preferred by the transgender person. If no preference is known, use the pronouns consistent with the way the subject lives publicly.

- GLAAD's Media Reference Guide: A Resource for Journalists, Updated May 2010,
http://www.glaad.org/reference/style

This article might also interest you; http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/sage-smith-case-police-want-to-chat.html

Sincerely,

SandraJane Turner
         

Ms. Koon may be reached at; skoon@dailyprogress.com

[SandraJane]

TransGriot


Friday, November 30, 2012

Sage Smith Case- Police Want To Chat With Erik McFadden


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/sage-smith-case-police-want-to-chat.html




While there's unfortunately still no word about Sage Smith and her family has yet to hear from her a week after being reported missing, there is some news in this case.  The Charlottesville, VA police have a person they wish to talk to that may shed light on what happened to her.

21 year old Erik Tyquan McFadden was the last person she talked to on her cell phone the day she went missing on November 20.  According to McFadden's Facebook page he is a student at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

The Charlottesville police spoke to McFadden, who admitted he did talk to her, they were supposed to meet on that day but according to him it never happened.

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TransGriot


Thursday, November 29, 2012

Search For Missing Virginia Trans Teen


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/search-for-missing-virginia-trans-teen.html




One of our young transsisters is missing in the Charlottesville,VA area.  The local police and the family of Sage Smith is asking for help in finding her.

The 19 year old has been missing since November 20 when she was supposed to be meeting a man on a date and missed a planned Thanksgiving dinner with her mother..

[SandraJane]

Local LGBTQ Group Concerned About Police Involvement of Missing Transgender Teen

Reporter: Frankie Jupiter | Posted: Mon 7:08 PM, Dec 03, 2012


http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Local-LGBTQ-Group-is-Concerned-About-Police-Involvement-of-Missing-Transgender-Teen-181921761.html


Members of Charlottesville Pride Community Networks say they are concerned that police are not handling the case of missing transgender teen Dashad Smith properly.

"There's definitely a perception on the part of the L.G.B.T. community here in Charlottesville that this issue is not as important; that its being swept up under the rug," said the group's president, Amy Marshall.

She says his lifestyle may be causing his case not to be taken seriously by police. She also feels that stereotypes about his lifestyle may be causing a lack of interest.

[Nero]

Searching for Sage: Family mourns missing teen, demands answers

By Courteney Stuart | stuart@readthehook.com
Published online 4:27pm Friday Dec 7th, 2012

"A 2011 graduate of Charlottesville High School, Dashad was last seen on November 20, just two days before Thanksgiving. Police have placed his last sighting at around 6:30pm in the 500 block of West Main, but the young man– who often dressed as a woman– was spotted several times that Tuesday evening, says his cousin Kenneth Jackson.

"People saw him downtown on the red phone at CVS," says Jackson, referring to a phone the drugstore lets customers use.

"They saw him again up in the middle of town near the train station. Then they saw him on the Corner around midnight," insists Jackson, who says he spoke with one witness who told him the teen appeared frightened when she saw him walking with a companion near downtown."


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