March 04 2021 10:12 PM EST
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with killing her two children, one of whom was transgender and the other nonbinary.
Jeffery “JJ” Bright, a 16-year-old trans boy, and his nonbinary sibling, 22-year-old Jasmine Canady, died February 22 after both were shot in the head at their home in Ambridge, in the western part of Pennsylvania, the
Beaver Countian newspaper reports. Initial coverage identified Canady as Bright’s sister, but it has now been reported that the victim identified as nonbinary, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
The two young people’s mother, Krisinda Ann Bright, was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal homicide. Police said she called 911 and said she had killed her children, and when they arrived she was covered in blood, Pittsburgh TV station KDKA reports. At least one of the children begged her not to shoot, the criminal complaint against her states.
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