Updated: 9:38 AM EDT Apr 5, 2021 WXII12.com Web Staff The Randolph County Sheriff s Office has taken Jessie Jaquan Pratt into custody. Pratt is charged with first degree murder, stemming from a triple shooting on Plummer Street late Saturday night.The shooting left Robert Lewis Spencer, 27, dead and a second person injured by gunfire.Pratt was also injured and taken into law enforcement custody after being released from the hospital.He is scheduled to make a first appearance in Randolph County District Court today.
The Randolph County Sheriff s Office has taken Jessie Jaquan Pratt into custody.
Pratt is charged with first degree murder, stemming from a triple shooting on Plummer Street late Saturday night.
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Black Trans Women Shot to Death in Georgia, Mississippi February 04 2021 3:52 PM EST
Black transgender women were shot to death in Georgia and Mississippi in January, meaning that at least four trans Americans have died by violence in the first month of the year.
Bianca “Muffin” Bankz, 30, was fatally shot in her apartment in Atlanta January 17, but media reports of her death have come out in just the past few days. Police believe her killer was a man named Moses Allen, who then took his own life,
Their bodies were discovered by Bankz’s roommate, with whom she had often lived on the streets. Bankz had moved into the apartment just a few weeks before she died.
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Friends and transgender advocates said Bonaire “Bonnie” Black was trying to find employment and housing. She was found dead on Dec. 31.
With fistfuls of pink and blue balloons – the colors of the transgender flag – friends gathered outside a drop-in center last week to memorialize Bonaire “Bonnie” Black, a transgender teen living on the streets who was found dead on New Year’s Eve.
The death of Black, 19, is under investigation by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office. There were no signs of foul play, according to an incident report from Atlanta police, but people who knew Black said she was killed during an argument.
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