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WHO KILLED GAY TEEN SIMMIE WILLIAMS IN FORT LAUDERDALE
By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer - 02-25-09 - 12:00 a.m. PDT
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It has been a year since the brutal murder of transgender teenager Simmie Williams. Since the brutal slaying, police in Fort Lauderdale have yet to make any arrest. The body of 17-year-old Simmie Williams was found dead February. 22, 2008, in a pool of his own blood in an area known for prostitution.Police said that Williams was wearing female clothing and may have been working as a prostitute. Williams was also known by the names of entertainer "Beyonce" and "Chris". Police stated that residences in the area witnessed Williams arguing with two men. Suddently two shots rang out and Williams was lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
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This past Sunday, February 22, 2009, Williams’ family and close friends gathered at the crime scene of her killing for a candlelight vigil. Local politicians and law enforcement officials were in attendance to show their respects.“I won’t have peace until his killer is caught,” Williams’ mother, Denise King, told the Sun-Sentinel before the vigil began. Police say they have not given up.
“We have not forgotten about Simmie, and we will not forget about Simmie,” Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Brice Brittenum told the crowd.
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But sources inside the investigation stated that they still don’t have a motive, let alone a suspect. It remains unclear if the slaying was a hate crime or a robbery gone wrong. The site of the killing is near that of another unsolved murder of a trans woman who was transitioning and still using her birth name, Timothy Broadus, back in 2003 and that crime has yet to solved as well.
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