Down the sidewalk, winding up at city hall just behind us here and calm of speakers and a couple of speakers will then address the crowd about what theyve been seeing over the past year. This this past year alone, about 300 people who identify as transgender have been killed. 26 of those right here in the u. S. The vast majority of those were women of color. With the spike in hate crimes nation wild recently this group is hoping to promote a message of peace, understanding and acceptance and again this is going to be st join and listen to the message they have here tonight. Certainly they hopes this something that will continue long into the weeks and months ahead. To see those trends go on the downward trend to see less of this kind of crime happening. Reporting live here in st. Petersburg, kera mashek, abc action news. Thank you. Meanwhile antitrump marches are continuing almost now two weeks after donald trump became the president elect and here saturday. Anxiety continues to grow a
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Reporting the u. S. Marshals are talking to a person of interest. Police are still searching for the gunman right now, Benjamin Marconi was killed in broad daylight yesterday. He had just pulled over a vehicle and was writing a ticket when another car pulled up to him and shot him in the head. The suspect in the shooting of a st. Louis Police Officer has now been killed in a shootout. Police say the gunman ambushed one of their officers while his cruiser was beside him and someone shot the officer twice in his face. The citys police chief says the victim is expected to survive. The gunman took off after the incident. Undercover officers found his abandoned car and later found him which led to a shootout after midnight. One person is in custody. Someone fired shots outside the pegasus lounge last night. One person suffered minor north port shooting investigation. Police say two kids were firing bb guns and one ended up being hit in the head. That juvenile airlifted to the hospital but w
Thankerfthankfully the wrong way driver and the officer are okay. Reporter thats right, deiah. Atthis morning. That wrongway driver is expected to be okay as well. Now investigators are left to figure out exactly what happened at this intersection. We were here at the intersection of east kennedy and hyde park avenue not long after the crash. The damage clear, the officer involved doing better after being rushed to tampa general injured. Air bags on both vehicles did deploy. Investigators telling us the officer was traveling eastbound on kennedy heading into downtown when the wrongway driver entered his path of travel northbound from the South Hyde Park avenue. Thats when the two vehicles collided. South hyde park avenue is clearly marked as a oneway street. This morning investigators still trying to determine why that driver was coming down the wrong way. At this point they have not told us if alcohol was a factor in this crash. Possibly help out in this case, the cameras right here a