{"id":40079,"date":"2017-01-07T19:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40079"},"modified":"2017-01-07T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:42:15","slug":"transgender-woman-mesha-campbell-killed-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40079","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Woman Mesha Campbell Killed in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=40081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40081\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mesha-campbell-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mesha-campbell-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mesha-campbell.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A transgender woman was found shot to death on a road in Mississippi this week, and her killing is being investigated as a homicide, meaning she is the first trans murder victim of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mesha Campbell\u2019s<\/strong> body was found Wednesday afternoon near Canton in Madison County, in the central part of the state, Jackson TV station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnewsnow.com\/story\/34186326\/police-investigating-homicide-after-body-found-in-madison-county?clienttype=generic&amp;utm_content=buffer513f9&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">WLBT<\/a> reports. She had been shot several times. Police have not made statements about a motive, but friends believe she may have been killed for being transgender.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, 41, was a hairstylist and makeup artist in Canton and was well-liked in the community. \u201cI think people will miss her style, her personality,\u201d friend Keith Dupree told the station. \u201cShe won many hair battles, and she hosted competitions in Canton for the young people, so she will be missed greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evonne Kaho, a former roommate of Campbell\u2019s, also spoke highly of her. \u201cAbout three weeks ago I saw Mesha at the gay-lesbian bar,\u201d Kaho told WLBT. \u201cShe was always happy and she was always smiling and she always had something good to say to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news of Campbell\u2019s death comes almost concurrently with the <a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/transgender\/2017\/1\/06\/virginia-woman-27th-trans-person-murdered-2016\" target=\"_blank\">confirmation<\/a> that the victim of a December murder in Virginia was a trans woman, India Monroe. She was misgendered in initial reports, but the confirmation of her trans identity means she was the 27th trans homicide victim reported in 2016, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2016\/10\/14\/these-are-trans-people-killed-2016\" target=\"_blank\">deadliest year on record<\/a> for trans people. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2017\/1\/06\/trans-woman-murdered-mississippi-first-2017\">Advocate<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender woman was found shot to death on a road in Mississippi this week, and her killing is being investigated as a homicide, meaning she is the first trans murder victim of 2017.<br \/>\nMesha Campbell\u2019s body was found Wednesday afternoon near Canton in Madison County, in the central part of the state, Jackson TV station [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[7031,7032,6029,7029,7030,6034,5528,7033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40082,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40079\/revisions\/40082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}