{"id":40499,"date":"2017-02-23T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40499"},"modified":"2017-02-23T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:02:38","slug":"trans-woman-tiara-lashaytheboss-richmond-murdered-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40499","title":{"rendered":"Trans Woman Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond Murdered in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=40500\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40500\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiara-lashaytheboss-richmond-750_0-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiara-lashaytheboss-richmond-750_0-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tiara-lashaytheboss-richmond-750_0.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A transgender woman of color has been shot to death on Chicago\u2019s south side, the fourth reported murder of a trans person this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond, 24, died Tuesday morning, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windycitymediagroup.com\/lgbt\/Trans-woman-of-color-murdered-on-Chicagos-South-Side-\/58234.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windy City Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports. She was shot in the chest, arm, and hand.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond was shot shortly after 6 a.m. by a person she was riding with in a vehicle, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/homicides.suntimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chicago Sun-Times,<\/em><\/a> which misgendered her in its report. The suspect fled in the vehicle, and police found Richmond lying on the ground when they arrived. She was pronounced dead about 7 a.m. at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>By this time last year, six murders of transgender people had been reported in the U.S. It turned out to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2016\/10\/14\/these-are-trans-people-killed-2016\" target=\"_blank\">deadliest year on record,<\/a> with 27 homicides of trans Americans reported. Most of them were women of color.<\/p>\n<p>The actual number in any given year is undoubtedly much higher, as many victims are misgendered by media or police, or their deaths not reported at all. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2017\/2\/23\/trans-woman-color-murdered-chicago\">Advocate<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender woman of color has been shot to death on Chicago\u2019s south side, the fourth reported murder of a trans person this year.<br \/>\nTiara Lashaytheboss Richmond, 24, died Tuesday morning, Windy City Times\u00a0reports. She was shot in the chest, arm, and hand.<br \/>\nRichmond was shot shortly after 6 a.m. by a person she was riding with [&#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":[4676,6029,6034,7146,5777,5528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499"}],"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=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40501,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/40501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}