Amid 'Pervasive Anti-Transgender Sentiment,' a Record Number of Deaths

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