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Navy sailor charged in death of black transgender woman in Mississippi
Source: The Guardian
Navy sailor charged in death of black transgender woman in Mississippi
Security footage released by local police shows sailor Dwanya Hickerson
leaving the hotel where Dee Whigham is believed to have been stabbed
to death
Zach Stafford
Tuesday 26 July 2016 20.07 BST
A member of the US navy has been charged in connection with the death of a 25-year-old black transgender woman who was found dead in a hotel room in St Martin, Mississippi, on Saturday.
Dee Whigham, a recently graduated registered nurse, is believed to have been stabbed to death at a Best Western hotel, but investigators were waiting for full autopsy results before ruling an official cause of death.
Dwanya Hickerson, 20, has been charged with capital murder in connection with Whigham’s death.
Hickerson was apprehended on the Keesler air force base on Monday morning after the sheriff’s department received a tip from personnel at the base who saw surveillance footage released by local police of Hickerson leaving the hotel.
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Security footage released by local police shows sailor Dwanya Hickerson
leaving the hotel where Dee Whigham is believed to have been stabbed
to death
Zach Stafford
Tuesday 26 July 2016 20.07 BST
A member of the US navy has been charged in connection with the death of a 25-year-old black transgender woman who was found dead in a hotel room in St Martin, Mississippi, on Saturday.
Dee Whigham, a recently graduated registered nurse, is believed to have been stabbed to death at a Best Western hotel, but investigators were waiting for full autopsy results before ruling an official cause of death.
Dwanya Hickerson, 20, has been charged with capital murder in connection with Whigham’s death.
Hickerson was apprehended on the Keesler air force base on Monday morning after the sheriff’s department received a tip from personnel at the base who saw surveillance footage released by local police of Hickerson leaving the hotel.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/26/dee-whigham-black-transgender-woman-killed-us-navy
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[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#00009d]Here is hoping that they do apply federal hate crime charges at the very least.[/font]
