Tampa, Florida Sees Tenth Trans Woman Murdered in U.S. in 2015 | Advocate.com

India Clarke, a 25-year-old black trans woman, was found beaten to death Tuesday morning outside Tampa, Florida's University Area Community Center, reports Tampa Bay TV station WTSP.

A park employee called police after discovering Clarke's body just before 9 a.m. near the basketball courts. She died from blunt force trauma to the upper body. Family told the TV station that they had last seen her on Sunday spending time with her nephews.

Her killing marks the tenth murder of a trans woman in the U.S. this year, nearly as many as in all of 2014.


Tampa, Florida Sees Tenth Trans Woman Murdered in U.S. in 2015 | Advocate.com