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Trans Women Jaida Peterson And Remy Fennell Killed At Separate Charlotte Hotels Just Days Apart
Two suspects have been charged in connection to the Charlotte, North Carolina killings of two transgender women.
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Police arrested two suspects in Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday that are believed to be connected to two shooting deaths of Black transgender women.
Jaida Peterson, 29, was found dead on April 4 at a Quality Inn & Suites Airport hotel, just a little over a week before Remy Fennell, 28, was discovered dead at the Sleep Inn University Place on April 15. The striking similarities in the two separate incidents led investigators to suspect a transphobic serial killer may have been at large.
Men arrested, charged in murder of two trans women in Charlotte, NC
The bodies of Jaida Peterson and Remy Fennell were found shot dead in hotel rooms less than two weeks apart of one another
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Two men suspected in the slayings of two Black transgender women days apart in Charlotte, North Carolina were arrested Friday, according to law enforcement.
The bodies of
Jaida Peterson and
Remy Fennell were found in hotel rooms earlier this month. The circumstances behind their fatal shootings prompted the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to deliver an “urgent” message to the LGBTQ community, particularly those engaged in sex work,
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She was 29 years old.
Peterson’s death is the 26th homicide in Charlotte this year, and she’s at least the 14th transgender person killed nationwide since the start of the year, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Murders of transgender people are on the rise, and Black, transgender women are especially at risk. According to the HRC, Black trans women are murdered disproportionately because each of their identities - being Black, being trans, and being women - puts them at a greater risk of being killed and being victims of other forms of discrimination, too.
Many of the Black, trans women at Peterson’s vigil on April 9 asked for one thing over and over again: “Just respect us.”