The transgender community in New Orleans is on edge after two transgender women were killed within 48 hours of each other.
Chyna Gibson, one of the transgender women killed was gunned down on Saturday night, while the other victim was found with multiple stab wounds on Monday morning. The police are looking for the killers of this act, but have not linked the two killings to each other.
While speaking to the police, transgender activist, Daphanie Dupree said;
It's scary because like a lot of the girls in New Orleans, they're walking around like zombies, you know they have this little hidden fear that's inside them to even go anywhere and I hear a lot of them talking about like 'oh, I'm going to carry a gun.
It's very heartbreaking and it's scary because it's too close to home, I mean it could happen to any of us but I'm like -- we hang in the same circles, we hang in the same area just like it happened to them it could happen to me.
Speaking at a media conference, the police Cmdr. Doug Eckert said that the killings of the two women shows the violence against transgender people in the Louisiana city. Doug said;
I mean one is too many, and that's how we feel. If we learn that it's a hate crime, of course, we'll pursue the charges of that.
Police have also put out a search for the owner of a black Chevrolet Camaro in regards to the homicide
