On the night of August 2, 2024, Vanity Williams, a 34-year-old Black transgender woman, was fatally shot in the lobby of her apartment building at 1711 Caroline Street in downtown Houston, Texas. Houston Police Department officers responded to a shooting call around 11:10 p.m. and found Ms. Williams unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. Ms. Williams was an Air Force veteran who had recently begun nursing school with aspirations of opening a medic
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