• Re: Transgender Teen Killed After Going on Date in South Carolina, Poli

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    An 18-year-old from the small South Carolina city of Laurens has
    been found dead after disappearing while on a date with someone
    they met online, police have said.

    Kierstyn Williamson, who friends have said was transitioning to
    be a man and was known as Jacob, was last seen by family members
    on the evening of June 30. Eddie Cathey, Union County sheriff,
    said that what they believe to be Williamson's body had been
    located late in the afternoon on July 4.

    The sheriff's office in Monroe County, North Carolina, said that
    following an "extensive" investigation with the North Carolina
    State Bureau of Investigation, two suspects—Joshua Newton, 25,
    and Victoria Smith, 22—have been taken into custody in
    connection with the killing.

    Newton has been charged with first degree murder and obstruction
    of justice, while Smith has been charged with obstruction of
    justice and accessory after the fact.

    "My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the victim in
    this case as they begin to mourn this unimaginable loss," Cathey
    said in a statement on Wednesday.

    The case is now being considered a homicide investigation, which
    the force said is ongoing, and urged anyone with information to
    get in touch. It is unclear why Williamson was killed.

    Union County Lieutenant James Maye told Newsweek that its
    "extensive" investigation "has not produced any evidence that
    would support this homicide being considered a hate crime."

    He added: "While the motive is still being determined, it does
    not appear that Williamson was specifically targeted because of
    [their] gender identity."

    Union County Sheriff's Office said that Williamson had first
    been reported missing by family to authorities in Laurens and
    was thought to have gone to a residence on Bethpage Lane in
    Monroe, North Carolina, a rural area to the south-east of
    Charlotte.

    According to Fox Carolina, citing the sheriff's office, a family
    member told deputies that Williamson had agreed to meet Newton
    on Facebook, arranging to be picked up by Newton at a Waffle
    House before going to Carowinds, an amusement park that
    straddles the state border.

    It reported the person said Williamson had remained in contact
    after leaving home, but stopped responding after 11:40 p.m. ET
    on June 30.

    "I think they had planned on meeting up and spend some time
    together on a date and that's where [Williamson] met him. That
    was the plan," Maye told Charlotte, North Carolina-based news
    channel WSOC. "Unfortunately [it] ended in the loss of
    [Williamson's] life."

    Another Charlotte-based channel, WBTV, reported Williamson's
    body had been found in Pageland, South Carolina—just south of
    the state border and on route 601 from Monroe—between 7-10 miles
    from where investigators believe Williamson was killed. Maye
    confirmed these facts to Newsweek.

    Promise Edwards, a long-term family friend, told WBTV that she
    had said goodbye to Williamson that night. "The last thing I
    told him is that I love you, see you in the morning," she
    recalled.

    Edwards said Williamson had been living with her for about a
    month and a half after some members of Williamson's family
    struggled to accept their decision to transition to be a man.

    "Supposed to be celebrating my birthday today but instead I'm
    laying here numb staring at the ceiling wondering why," Edwards
    wrote in a Facebook post on Friday morning. "I do anything to
    have one more second with you.

    "I keep saying that I'll never understand but that's because
    there is absolutely no way anyone could ever make me understand.
    You deserved more than what this cruel world gave you."

    Newsweek approached Edwards via direct message for further
    comment on Friday.

    Williamson's killing is not the first instance of a transgender
    person being killed in a seemingly unprovoked attack. In
    February, Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl and trans
    advocate, was stabbed to death in a park in Cheshire in the U.K.

    Two 15-year-olds were later charged with Ghey's murder, and
    police were investigating whether the attack may have been a
    hate crime.

    https://www.newsweek.com/jacob-williamson-murder-south-carolina-
    1811489

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