Here are the 19 transgender Americans lost to violence so far this year

The transgender Americans lost to violence so far this year

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África Parrilla García, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman, was killed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in February. She was shot several times about 1 a.m. February 2 on a San Juan street, according to Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día.

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Yella Clark, 45, an incarcerated Black transgender person, was killed in a fight with other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., in April.

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Jazlynn Johnson, an 18-year-old transgender woman, was shot to death May 6 in Las Vegas, and a 17-year-old has been charged with murder.

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Liara Kaylee Tsai, a 35-year-old transgender woman who was a well-regarded Trevor Project volunteer, was killed in Minnesota June 22, and her former romantic partner is charged with second-degree murder.

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Shannon Boswell, a Black trans woman just days from her 31st birthday, was shot and killed July 2in Stone Mountain, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Initial reports misgendered her and characterized her death as the result of a hit-and-run accident. But the DeKalb County medical examiner later discovered she had been shot, according to several local news outlets.

Boswell “was shot and then left in the street like a deer,” her mother, Tammy Boswell, told Atlanta TV station WSB. “Shannon was really a very sweet person … and ain’t nobody have a right to take [her] from me.”

Tammy Boswell said several of Shannon’s friends and her boyfriend said she had been shot, so she kept calling the police with that information, but they denied there had been a shooting until the medical examiner’s report came out.

No arrest has been made.