Police in Washington, D.C. are investigating the shooting of a transgender person that occurred just after 2 a.m. this morning in the Southeast area of the city, according to The Washington Post.
The Post report indicates that the victim survived the shooting and was conscious when transported by ambulance to the hospital. The article does not say whether the victim was a woman or a man.
The shooting marks the third time since late July that a trans person has been shot on a D.C. street by unknown assailants. On July 20, Lashay Mclean was walking in the 6100 block of Dix Street, in the city’s northeast area, with a friend when the were approached by two men, one of who asked Mclean a question and then shot and killed Mclean before she could answer. Eleven days later, another trans woman was walking on Dix Street, about a block away from where Mclean was killed, when she was approached by a man who asked for money and then, without waiting for a response, pulled a gun and fired at the woman. The shot missed and the woman was uninjured.
Police are still investigating whether the three shootings are related.
In addition, an off-duty D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer has been arrested for an Aug. 29 incident in which he got into an argument with a group that included two trans woman. He later stood on the hood of the group’s car and fired multiple times through the windshiled. One man in the car — said to be the brother of one of the trans women — was injured in the attack.
The officer, 20-year veteran Kenneth Furr, is alleged to have been drunk at the time of the attack, and trans advocates who spoke to the victims said the argument started when Furr propositioned one of the trans women and then got angry when she turned him down.
D.C. police are also investigating an incident in which a transgender woman was found dead with trauma to her face on Saturday.