{"id":42678,"date":"2017-11-30T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42678"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:42:12","slug":"transgender-woman-brooklyn-breyanna-stevenson-murdered-in-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42678","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Woman Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson Murdered in Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=42680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42680\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Brooklyn-BreYanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Brooklyn-BreYanna.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Brooklyn-BreYanna-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A transgender woman was found murdered in a hotel room in Oklahoma City early Monday morning, making her the 25th known transgender homicide victim this year.<\/p>\n<p>Police responding to a report of a disturbance at the hotel about 2:30 a.m. discovered the body of <strong>Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson<\/strong>, 31, reports Oklahoma City TV station\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2017\/11\/27\/police-investigating-possible-murder-after-body-found-inside-motel-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KFOR<\/a>. &#8220;This person had trauma to their body consistent with homicide,\u201d police spokesman Gary Knight told the station. \u201cI can&#8217;t go into the type of trauma they had or what we believe killed them.\u201d There have been no arrests, and police have not determined a motive, he said.<\/p>\n<p>LGBT advocates in the city worried that Stevenson was targeted for being transgender. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d trans activist Paula Sophia Schonauer, a former Oklahoma City police officer,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2017\/11\/28\/womans-murder-raises-concerns-questions-among-oklahoma-citys-transgender-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KFOR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I found out [Monday] night, it broke my heart,\u201d Schonauer added. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to know Brooklyn a little bit. I knew how hard she was trying and how much she was working to establish her identity and to establish a place in the world for herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a deep concern,\u201d Troy Stevenson (no relation to Brooklyn), executive director of LGBT group Freedom Oklahoma, told the station. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a member of the transgender community that\u2019s been murdered like this and it happens quite often, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s tragic, no matter what, that Brooklyn was killed. We absolutely hope that it\u2019s proven not to be a hate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Stevenson\u2019s family released a statement to the TV station, saying, \u201cWe are heartbroken. Brooklyn BreYanna was an amazing daughter, sister and friend with a giving and loving heart. We pray that those who committed this heinous crime will be identified and Brooklyn will receive justice.\u201d The family has set up a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/burial-fund-for-brooklyn-breyanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a>\u00a0page to raise money to help with burial costs.<\/p>\n<p>Police ask that anyone with information about the crime call the department\u2019s homicide tip line, (405) 297-1200. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/crime\/2017\/11\/29\/transgender-woman-murdered-oklahoma-city\">Advocate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender woman was found murdered in a hotel room in Oklahoma City early Monday morning, making her the 25th known transgender homicide victim this year.<br \/>\nPolice responding to a report of a disturbance at the hotel about 2:30 a.m. discovered the body of Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, 31, reports Oklahoma City TV station\u00a0KFOR. &#8220;This person had [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[7838,7842,6029,6034,7839,7840,5528,7841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42678"}],"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=42678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42681,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42678\/revisions\/42681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}