#17::Monday shooting death update

 

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/07/number-16-rest-in-peace-diamond-stephens.html

As TransGriot notes, "This is why we harp on media and police respecting the pronouns and lives of trans people.   This woman was killed in June, but the community is just now finding out about it because of media and police misgendering."

The investigation of the death of a local man Monday evening is continuing. Authorities were called after a van crashed into a house in the 2200 block of 26th Avenue.

Coroner Clayton Cobler says 39-year-old Jeremiah Stephens [Diamond Stephens], who is known to family and friends as Miles or Miss Diamond, is the victim in the shooting Monday afternoon that caused a van to crash into a house.

Cobler says the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the back of Stephens' head.

"It looked like a single shot from what I could tell without disturbing anything. The body has gone to Jackson for an autopsy and we are just waiting for the investigation to hold there," says Cobler.

Authorities say they're still looking for a motive for the shooting.

Monday shooting death update