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# 34th trans person killed in the US
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/34th-trans-person-killed-in-the-us/
- Published: 2020-11-04T14:30:32.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-04T12:36:20.000Z
- Description: Angel Haynes, a 25-year-old black trans woman, is the 34th trans person to have been killed in the US this year after she was shot in a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Black trans lives matter, Human Rights Campaign, LGBTQ, Tennessee, Trans Rights

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**Angel Haynes**, a 25-year-old black trans woman, is the 34th trans person to have been killed in the **US** this year after she was shot in a motel in **Memphis**, **Tennessee**. The cosmetologist was [found](https://www.out.com/crime/2020/11/02/angel-haynes-shot-killed-historically-deadly-year-trans-folks?ref=scenemag.co.uk) after police were called to Motel 6 on East Brooks Road; she had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and the incident is being investigated as a homicide. There are currently no suspects and local police have not yet confirmed if they are treating the murder as a hate crime.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/transrights600.png)

Haynes’ best friend, **Takia Weddle**, said Haynes had travelled from their hometown of Jackson to visit Memphis, but never called to let Weddle know she had arrived safely. Weddle expressed shock at Haynes’ death, saying: *“I still can’t believe it really because that was the only person I was with every single day…Everybody that knew Angel knew that she was very funny, \[she was\] very nice to everybody she met.”*

2020 is the deadliest year on record for trans Americans, and Haynes is the 7th to have been killed in less than two months following the death of [**Sara Blackwood**](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/33rd-trans-person-killed-in-the-us/) in October. The majority of victims were black trans women like Haynes. **Tori Cooper**, the **Human Rights Campaign’s** director of community engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative, said: *“Since HRC began tracking this violence in 2013, two-thirds of victims have been Black trans women and more than 60% of incidents have involved gun violence…the numbers continue to climb, even during a pandemic. We must all ask ourselves what each of us is doing to work to bring this violence to an end.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/black-trans-lives-matter600400.jpg)