“It’s essential that biased crime against trans people be recognized as a serious national problem,” she said in a phone interview. Harper Jean Tobin, spokeswoman for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), a Washington DC advocacy group, said the murder was part of an “epidemic of violence against transgender people” in the United States. ![]() Mercedes' murder was the first ever murder of a transgender person to be successfully prosecuted under the Act. Written by: Brianne Szopinski On Monday, May 15, 2017, Joshua Vallum became the first individual to be prosecuted and sentenced for a federal hate crime. In May 2017 Joshua Vallum, 29, was sentenced to 49 years in prison under the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. She said if they found out, both her and Vallum would be killed. Joshua Vallum, 29, knew Mercedes Williamson was a transgender teenage girl when they began dating, the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said. A Lucedale man pleads guilty to a federal hate crime for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman. Mercedes confided in Jeanie that their relationship was very dangerous, as the gang was anti homosexual behaviour. Vallum, 28, a member of the notorious Latin Kings gang, had connections to the criminal underworld. The 17-year-old, who was estranged from her family because she was transgender, had been living as a girl from age 14.įriends and Jeanie told police Mercedes had been in a relationship with Joshua Vallum for several months, breaking up the previous year. Mercedes was killed by her boyfriend (a street gang member) on Saturday 30th May after he learnt that one of his friends had discovered that she was transgender. Joshua Brandon Vallum is a 29 year old man who become lovers with a 17 year old girl, Mercedes Williamson, whom he knew to be transgender in 2015. Joshua Vallum, (29), killed Mercedes Williamson in May 2015, after the end of their relationship, because a friend learned that she was transgender, a fact Vallum kept hidden from friends and. beautiful teenage transgender girl, Mercedes Williamson, is killed by her gang-member boyfriend Josh. ![]() TDoR list ref: tgeu/not reported/Mercedes Williamson Starring: Joshua Vallum, Destiny Allen, Ben Brown. Description: Gulfport, MS - Mississippi Man Sentenced To 49 Years in Prison for Bias-Motivated Murder of Transgender Woman in Lucedale, Mississippi Joshua Brandon Vallum, 29, of Lucedale, Mississippi, was sentenced to 49 years in prison for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman. TDoR 2015 / 2015 / May / 30 / Mercedes Williamson
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