Layleen Polanco, a 27-year-old transgender woman being held at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, was found dead in her cell on Friday, NBC reports.
Department of Corrections officers reportedly found Polanco’s body unresponsive in the Rose M. Singer Center for female inmates. Custodial staff performed CPR on Polanco until a medical team arrived. Efforts to revive Polanco lasted about an hour before she was declared dead. A cause of death has not been announced, though the Doc said there was no violence involved.
Polanco had...
Department of Corrections officers reportedly found Polanco’s body unresponsive in the Rose M. Singer Center for female inmates. Custodial staff performed CPR on Polanco until a medical team arrived. Efforts to revive Polanco lasted about an hour before she was declared dead. A cause of death has not been announced, though the Doc said there was no violence involved.
Polanco had...
- 6/10/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
An Arlington, Texas woman named Chynal Lindsey was found dead at the bottom of a lake in Dallas, marking the latest in a series of violent deaths of transgender women of color in the Dallas area this year.
Lindsey, 26, was found in Dallas’s White Rock Lake at 5:30 p.m. on a Saturday. According to Dallas police chief Renee Hall, who delivered a press conference on Monday, there were “obvious signs of homicidal violence” on Lindsey’s body, and her death is being investigated as a homicide.
During the press conference,...
Lindsey, 26, was found in Dallas’s White Rock Lake at 5:30 p.m. on a Saturday. According to Dallas police chief Renee Hall, who delivered a press conference on Monday, there were “obvious signs of homicidal violence” on Lindsey’s body, and her death is being investigated as a homicide.
During the press conference,...
- 6/4/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
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