{"id":40997,"date":"2017-04-27T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40997"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:19:11","slug":"trans-woman-chayviss-chay-darice-reed-murdered-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40997","title":{"rendered":"Trans Woman Chayviss &#8220;Chay&#8221; Darice Reed Murdered in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=40998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40998\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chayviss-chay-560x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chayviss-chay-560x526.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chayviss-chay-768x721.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chayviss-chay.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.<\/strong> &#8211; Detectives were looking for the killer of Chayviss &#8220;Chay&#8221; Darice Reed, who was shot dead on Friday in Miami-Dade County&#8217;s West Little River neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, 28, died in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and Northwest 93rd Street. She was born a boy, grew up in Carol City and Opa-locka and graduated from American Senior High School in Hialeah.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, her friends and relatives remembered her courage and sense of humor when she challenged the norms and came out as transgender.<\/p>\n<p>Reed&#8217;s social media profiles said she loved the Oscar-winning film &#8220;Moonlight&#8221; and was passionate about\u00a0spoken word, fashion and cosmetology.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, her friends\u00a0Di&#8217;Angelis Brookins\u00a0and Alexis Smith described her as &#8220;so sweet,&#8221; and Kendra Lockhart said she was a &#8220;good person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is so broken &#8230; we have lost such a wonderful person,&#8221; Lizleime\u00a0 Fernandez wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives have yet to say if she was the target of the shooting. Transgender people are at a higher risk of homicide than other members of the\u00a0LGBTQ\u00a0community, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avp.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reed is the ninth transgender woman in the nation to become the victim of a homicide this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/transgender\/2017\/3\/03\/these-are-trans-people-killed-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to The Advocate<\/a>, a magazine that covers the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were asking anyone with information to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/crime\/miami-dade-detectives-investigate-transgender-womans-murder\">local10)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Detectives were looking for the killer of Chayviss &#8220;Chay&#8221; Darice Reed, who was shot dead on Friday in Miami-Dade County&#8217;s West Little River neighborhood.<br \/>\nReed, 28, died in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and Northwest 93rd Street. She was born a boy, grew up in Carol City and Opa-locka and graduated [&#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":[7264,7263,7265,6316,6029,7266,6034,6772,5528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997"}],"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=40997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40999,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions\/40999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}