Four transgender women have been shot this year in Jacksonville, Fla., three of them fatally. The shootings have spurred community outrage over police handling of the cases and a call for a better relationship between the sheriff’s department and the local LGBT community.
Antash’a Devine English was found between two abandoned homes with a gunshot wound in the early morning hours of June 1. She later died in the hospital. Her close friend Chloie Kensington is still mourning her death.
“It was really deep, so I had to pray for days for the lord to take that pain away,” Kensington said. “I hadn’t felt that type of hurt in a long time.”
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