ALLENDALE, S.C. (WJBF) – A South Carolina man has been sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty in October 2023 to obstructing an investigation into the December 2019 murder of a transgender woman. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Xavier Pinckney, 24, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for providing false and misleading information […]
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/WJBFA South Carolina man was convicted of a hate crime for the 2019 murder of a transgender woman in the conclusion to the first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity.Daqua Lameek Ritter was found guilty of fatally shooting Dime Doe, whom he had been in a secret relationship with. Prosecutors alleged that Ritter shot Doe three times to prevent others from discovering that he was having an affair with a trans woman. They presented pol
A South Carolina man was found guilty of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity.