2 South Carolina men were charged in connection with the 2019 killing of Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman who was 'the joy of anyone's life'

 

2 South Carolina men were charged in connection with the 2019 killing of Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman who was 'the joy of anyone's life'

Two South Carolina men face hate crime and obstruction of justice charges in the 2019 killing of Dime DoeDoe, a Black transgender woman, is among the 61 unresolved cases of trans homicide over the last 5 yearsFederal investigators alleged that the men carried out the plot because of Doe's "actual and perceived gender identity."

Two South Carolina men were indicted on federal hate crime and obstruction of justice charges on Wednesday for the 2019 killing of a Black transgender woman.

Pebbles LaDime "Dime" Doe, a transgender woman, was killed on August 4, 2019, federal prosecutors said in the indictment announcement. They charged Daqua Ritter with a hate crime and charged both Ritter and his associate Xavier Pinckney with obstruction of justice, alleging that the men killed Doe because of her "actual and perceived gender identity," and then misled cops.

Doe's murder was among 61 unresolved cases out of 175 transgender deaths in the US over the past five years, according to an Insider investigation and database capturing data that is not tracked by the FBI, "Deaths in the family."