Donta L Gooden

Donta L. Gooden, also known as Tiffany, was a 19-year-old transgender woman who was tragically murdered on August 15, 2012, in Chicago. Gooden was found stabbed to death in an abandoned building on the city’s West Side. Her death was the second killing of a transgender woman in Chicago within a four-month span. Just a few months earlier, Paige Clay, another transgender woman, was found shot and killed nearby. Gooden’s death, like many others in the community, highlighted the severe vulnerabi ...