Thank you for all that you brought to this world. You lived on your own terms and deserved so many more years. Your vibrant life force touched and inspired many people. Note that the tabulation includes a significant number of reports of folx murdered in 2021. Their deaths come on the heels of 2021, the most violent year in recorded history with the deaths of 57 trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people in the United States alone. To date the victims include 9 Black trans women, 2 Latinx trans women, 1 AAIPI trans woman, 1 white trans woman and 2 white trans men. Her death means a trans neighbor has been murdered every 9.5 days in 2022 in the United States. At age 30, she is among the oldest of the victims. She is the ninth Black trans woman and the eleventh woman of color from these neighbors. She is the 15th transgender person reported as a victim of fatal violence in 2022. Donations continue to increase the reward. The organization has so far raised $3,000 in reward funds for information leading to an arrest in the homicide. “It is important that justice and whomever harmed and murdered Sid is brought to justice,” said LaGrone. LaGrone says Sid was a much loved member of the Capital Region’s LGBTQ community. LaGrone is the CEO at In Our Own Voices, the Capital District nonprofit that works to support the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of color. And Sid is a sibling and a community member of our community,” said Tandra LaGrone. And she also graduated from the University of Albany with a bachelor’s degree.
She graduated from Albany High School and studied at Hudson Valley Community College. She was close with her mom, cousins, and her niece. She was born and raised in Guilderland, New York. You may leave a voicemail or a text message there. If you have any information about this death please contact the Albany Police Department Detectives at 51 OR you can be anonymous and contact TDI at 77. The family has indicated that Ahsid died a “violent death,” presumably at the hands of another. The Albany Police Department is investigating but has not released any details on this case. Upon arrival, officers discovered that the tenant, a 30-year-old woman, was found deceased inside her apartment.
On Tuesday, around 9:15 a.m., officers responded to an apartment on Old Hickory Drive within the Loudon Arms Apartments to check the welfare of a tenant. Note the media reporting uses the appropriate pronouns, but also her dead name. Her name was Chanelika Y’Ella Dior Hemingway also known as Sid or Cyd according to her Facebook profiles. There is not much detail available, but the death of a Black trans woman in Albany, New York has been ruled a homicide.
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