Two-timing New Yorker Daqua Lameek Ritter has been convicted of a groundbreaking federal hate crime for gunning down his transgender lover, with the jury foreperson also a transgender woman.
A federal jury on Friday found a South Carolina man guilty of fatally shooting a Black transgender woman nearly five years ago because of her gender identity. Daqua Lameek Ritter, 26, was convicted of a hate crime for the murder of Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe in the nation’s first-ever federal hate crime trial based on gender identity. Ritter was also found guilty on all other charges in the .
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Daqua Lameek Ritter, 26, is facing the first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity for allegedly shooting Pebbles LaDime Doe three times on Aug. 4, 2019, in the rural South Carolina town where he spent summers with relatives.