by Associated Press and Foluké Tuakli
Candace Towns was found dead in Macon, Georgia,
between two neglected houses on Halloween. Towns, 30, was last seen on
surveillance video of a gas station near the Roadway Inn where she was
living. She had been shot and abandoned.
Towns
is the 25th reported transgender person killed in the U.S. so far this
year, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which noted 2017 is
the "deadliest [year] on record for the transgender community."
More than 60 percent of the deaths have occurred
in the South — four of them in Georgia. Twenty-one of the 25 killed,
including Towns, were women of color.
Zahara
Green, 27, had been in Macon a couple weeks before Towns’ body was
found. A transgender woman of color herself, Green said Towns’ murder
was upsetting.
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Source: NBC News
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