On January 6, 2019, 31-year-old Dana Martin, a Black transgender woman, was found fatally shot in her vehicle, which had veered into a ditch near Brewer Road in Montgomery, Alabama. Responding officers discovered Martin with a gunshot wound and pronounced her dead at the scene. Initial reports misgendered Martin, a common issue that complicates the accurate documentation of violence against transgender individuals.
The Montgomery Police Department launched a homicide investigation into
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