Tonya Harvey: 35-Year-Old Trans Woman Gunned Down In Buffalo
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Tonya Harvey: 35-Year-Old Trans Woman Gunned Down In Buffalo
Mujey Dumbuya, a 16-year-old girl from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was set to testify against her accuser in April. Her body was found in some woods in January 27, 2018, some 50 miles away from her home. Police have arrested a former janitor from her high school.
Thirty-one-year-old Diane Taylor was fatally shot in the head on January 31, 2018 while in an SUV about 11 p.m. on Chicago's West Side. Another occupant in the vehicle, Donald Holmes, 29, was also slain. Police have no suspects.
Karmeshia Pipes, 30, who was more than eight months pregnant, was shot dead in her home in South Memphis, Tennessee, police said. Authorities believe she had been dead three or four days after they found her body on January 30, 2018. Pipes' boyfriend was arrested in the slaying.
Diamond Bradley, 16, was found dead in a ditch on January 27, 2018 near Spring Valley, Illinois. Police are looking for suspects.
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Tysiona Crawford, 17, crashed her car into a home on January 18, 2018. Authorities found bullet holes in the car, with at least one of them piercing Tysiona's body.
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Kabreya Coleman, 24, was shot to death in southwest Baltimore on Jan. 11, 2018. Police have no suspects.
Desiree Gibbon, 26, of Queens, New York was found slain on a roadside in Jamaica in November 2017. The aspiring model was on the island nation looking for work.
Sable Pickett, 19, vanished off the streets of Orange County, California on Valentine's Day 2014. While police listed her as a missing person, a serial killer confessed to murdering her.
Tanganica Wallis, 27, was fatally shot in the head on December 27, 2017 during an argument with her mother's ex-boyfriend in New Orleans. The man's sister is accused of shooting Wallis.
The badly bruised body of Asia Wade, 30, lingered with her children for at least one day before relatives discovered the Nashville-area woman in July 2010. Police are looking for boyfriend, who has ties to Arkansas.
Shemel Mercurius, 16, was gunned down in her Flatbush home in June 2016 by a gunman wielding a sub-machine gun. Police arrested a 24-year-old man in the murder.
Kiah Hopson, 24, was gunned down outside her Sterling Heights, Michigan apartment on Saturday, Dec. 9 2017. Police have no suspects.
Thirty-three-year-old Tamika Trimble's body was found in a car after authorities responded to a shots fired call about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2017. Her 1-year-old daughter survived despite the car being hit with multiple bullets.
The body of Sabriya McLean, 15, of Delaware was found outside a Philadelphia apartment after she met up with a man from Facebook, police said. Her body had been stabbed and burned.
Kaylin Simone Cole, 21, was gunned down Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 while sitting inside a car in Indianapolis. Authorities are calling the slaying a "domestic" situation.
LaKandria Rush, 34, was shot to death by a gunman who pulled up beside the SUV she was sitting in on Oct. 27, 2017. The mother of four was pronounced dead shortly after.