Johanna Metzer was murdered in Baltimore.
Johanna Metzger, a transgender woman, was murdered in Maryland on Saturday, April 11. Metzger, who is from Pennsylvania, was at a rehab center in Baltimore, according to Baltimore TV station WMAR.
According to Metzger’s mother, her daughter was a college graduate who played a number of musical instruments. Metzger was stabbed to death on a Baltimore street.
In 10 years, there have been 10 murders of transgender women in Baltimore. This is the sixth murder of a transgender woman in the U.S. this year, according to Transgriot’s Monica Roberts.
Baltimore Safe Haven, an LGBTQ community center, organized an online vigil on Zoom on Wednesday.
— David Taffet
