Attorney Harold Brittain of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze of the FBI.
With that said, there is still far more work to do in terms of educating people on transgender issues, and ensuring they feel safe and respected in their communities.Ĭitations: Mississippian to be sentenced in anti-transgender hate crime (AP), He killed her because of her gender identity. Joshua Brandon Vallum, 29, of Lucedale, Mississippi, was sentenced today in the Southern District of Mississippi to 49 years in prison for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Acting U.S. This sends the message transgender lives matter and are protected by the law. But it is particularly significant he will also be sentenced on federal hate crime charges as well, in terms of acknowledging and giving visibility to the violence transgender people face. Vallum has already been sentenced to life in prison on a state murder charge. Vallum had dated 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson before he shot her with a stun gun, stabbed her repeatedly and beat her to death with a hammer in 2015 Vallum said he was motivated by the fear that. Prosecutors said Vallum shocked 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson with a stun gun, stabbed her and beat her to death in 2015 to keep fellow Latin Kings gang members from discovering the two were. While the cause of death is known, the motive. and last updated 1:57 PM, GEORGE COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Josh Vallum was sentenced to 49 years in prison Monday for a federal hate crime in the killing of Mercedes Williamson. The Human Rights Campaign reports at least 10 transgender people have been fatally shot or killed by other violent means so far this year. Mercedes is the ninth known transgender woman killed in the United States in 2015, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
interviews gang-member Josh Vallum who killed teenage transsexual Mercedes Williamson. This unfortunate trend has continued in 2017. Joshua Vallum, (29), killed Mercedes Williamson in May 2015, after the end of their relationship, because a friend learned that she was transgender, a fact Vallum kept hidden from friends and. Mercedes Williamson on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more. In 2016 alone, 27 transgender people were murdered across America, according to GLAAD. Mercedes Williamson was brutally killed and her body was found on JJosh Vallum, who was in a relationship with the woman, confessed to the killing The 29-year-old confessed killer said. Transgender people, especially trans women of color, are frequently targets of violence in the United States.
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