Police in Kansas City, Mo., tell The Advocate that a 32-year-old trans woman known as Jasmine Collins was murdered earlier this summer, almost two months before the most recent killing of a trans woman — also in Kansas City. Her death brings to 18 the total number of transgender women killed in the U.S. in 2015.
Media reports say Collins was stabbed to death following an argument over shoes.
Sgt. Kari Thompson confirmed details first reported by The Guardian, a U.K. newspaper. A woman named Tia Townsel, 33, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Collins, who police at first identified by a male name
because of the state-issued identification she was carrying, was stabbed
June 23 in a neighborhood north of downtown known as “The Bottoms." Kansas City TV station KCMO reported it was the second deadly stabbing at the Holiday Apartments in as many months.
Both KCMO and KCTV referred to Collins as a man based on documents from police:
Victim Number 18: Another Trans Woman Murdered in Kansas City | Advocate.com
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