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September 16, 2017 – Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old non-binary student at Georgia Tech, [319] was shot and killed by officer Tyler Beck of the Georgia Tech police department. [320] Schultz had approached the officers yelling for them to shoot while holding their arms downward and holding what officers at the time identified as a pocket knife ...
Cho killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. This killing is the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history , [ 4 ] and was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history .
Kenyon Jones confessed to the murder, telling police that he had paid Pierson for sex, and after he found out she was transgender, he killed her in anger. [52] [53] He was convicted of second degree murder and armed criminal action, and was sentenced to 30 years in jail. [54] 2011 – Svetlana was a transgender woman from Moscow, Russia. She ...
Human Rights Campaign has identified at least 335 transgender and gender-nonconforming people killed in the past decade. The past four years have been especially fatal for the community, with 171 ...
The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student murdered in 1998, assailed Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday for what they called hypocrisy on LGBT rights during a Justice ...
An administrative law judge reduced the amount and Duncan agreed to the reduction. At the time, Virginia Tech announced that it was considering appeals on both fines. [243] Ultimately, Virginia Tech paid a total of $32,500 in February 2014, saying it was closing "this chapter on the tragedy of April 16, 2007," without admitting wrongdoing.
49 people were killed, and 53 injured, in a shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12, 2016. [325] Muhlaysia Booker, an African-American transgender woman, was murdered on May 18, 2019, one month after she had been severely beaten by a mob of men following a minor traffic accident. The April 12 beating in Dallas garnered national ...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration said Tuesday that it has finalized new policies on the treatment of transgender students, guidance that will direct school districts to roll back some ...