FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, United States — Even though it was two years ago, Iya Dammons remembers what she said to Ashanti Carmon just before the 27-year-old was shot dead.
That night, the two Black transgender sex workers were among several working the poor area between the US capital and Maryland.
“We were laughing and talking on the corner, and she was like, ‘Girl, I’ll be right back’,” Dammons, the founder and executive director of Baltimore Safe Haven, a housing and social services nonprofit helping transgender people, told AFP.
“And she got into a vehicle. It turned down a side street and I heard gunshots.”
Carmon and Zoe Spears, 23, were killed within the space of a few …
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