Reader responds to last week’s letter calling for gays to arm themselves

Carlton Ray Champion Jr., 21, of Longview has been charged with murder in the Jan. 26 death of Tyler trans woman Ty Underwood, according to KLTV television station in Tyler.

Authorities arrested a man Friday whom they believe shot a young lesbian couple nearly two years ago, NBC News reports.

Tampa – The 18-year-old under arrest for the murder of India Clarke, a transgender woman whose body was found July 21 in a Tampa community center playground, is named as a “person of interest” in another Bay area murder.

TAMPA, Fla. - Authorities in Florida say a man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a transgender woman.

A Southern California man accused of beating and torturing an 8-year-old boy whom he and his ex-girlfriend, the boy's mother, called "gay," has decided not to take a plea deal to murder charges, sources told Los Angels' NBC-affiliate KNBC Thursday.

A jury voted a Los Angeles man to get the death penalty after he was convicted of the first-degree murder of a child he thought was gay.

(AP) A man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a transgender woman before setting her on fire in southwest Florida.

ATLANTA (AP) — A 33-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to strangling an LGBT activist and, months later, gouging out the eyeballs of a cellmate.

After dining with family and friends, Juan Cruz met fatal gunfire outside the Las Flores restaurant in Lake Worth.

With his clothes folded neatly into a pile and student I.D. left out along with other miscellaneous items, young gay teen Scott Johnson fell to his death from a cliff in Sydney, Australia. The year was 1988.

As this edition of SFGN goes to press, the 8-year-old murder case of partners Kevin Mark Powell and Steve Adams has been turned over to a Broward County jury for final deliberations on the guilt of the accused, Peter Serge Avsenew, now 34 years old.

(WB) A Germantown, Md., man charged with the October 2015 shooting death of transgender woman Zella Ziona, 21, in an alley behind a Gaithersburg shopping mall was sentenced on Sept. 15 to 35 years in prison.

Maryland county police charged a man with first-degree murder for the shooting death of a transgender woman, the Advocate reports.

Miami-Dade Police have put out a plea for the public’s help in identifying the murderer of Alexus “Kimmy” Braxton, a Black trans woman who was found dead in her bedroom the night of Feb. 4.

LUCEDALE, Miss. - A documented member of the Latin Kings street gang allegedly used a hammer to beat to death a transgender teen who once considered him a boyfriend.

A Broward County Judge has dismissed murder charges against John Snavely, accused in 2013 of the 2010 Pompano Beach murder of a prominent, millionaire gay businessman from Maryland, Samuel Del Brocco.

A man charged in connection with the murder of a transgender woman in Logan had his preliminary hearing continued.

The murder of Penny Proud, who was fatally shot early Tuesday morning in New Orleans, marks the fifth transgender woman of color to be murdered in the United States in less than a month,BuzzFeed reports.

SEATTLE (AP) _ Seattle police say the man charged with aggravated murder in the June 1 execution-style shooting deaths of two young Seattle men has been arrested in New Jersey.

Police have not taken any new suspects into custody in the October murder of a trans woman in Logan, police spokesperson Officer Christine O'Brien told PGN this week.

Victims of recent attacks and members of the LGBT community working for more security in Oak Lawn were fuming this week over the way police handled the arrests of two teens who allegedly committed a carjacking last weekend.

Four transgender people were killed in the same week in April, bringing the total number of trans murders in the month to seven.

A teenager from upstate New York was arrested Monday after confessing to killing a man who was more than three times his age after possibly meeting him on Craigslist, the Watertown Daily Times reports.

While this past weekend as filled with fireworks and celebrations for the Fourth of July, for a local family, it was the one-year anniversary of their love one’s murder.

The opponent of a gay man running for public office was arrested Monday, Nov. 30, for felony extortion.

A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld all current convictions against Frank R. Chester, who murdered Anthony V. Milano almost 30 years ago.

A central Pennsylvania man who allegedly skipped his September trial on child rape charges has been charged with robbing and killing a suburban Philadelphia man he met on the Internet, then using the victim's bank and credit cards in at least five states before his arrest in North Carolina.

The man who shot and killed a North Philadelphia lesbian in broad daylight last week remains on the loose.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court entered a not guilty plea Monday for a U.S. Marine charged with murdering a transgender Filipino, allegedly after he discovered her gender when they checked into a hotel.