Remembering Our Dead

Chiron Collins

Chiron was stabbed 42 times in the head, neck, face, and arm after getting into a fight with a man she met at a bar.

He claimed that he was 'deceived' because she was transgender.

Theodore Roebuck was convicted of murder, and sentenced to a 40-year state prison term.

When police answered a call to investigate a scuffle at a motel on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Cam- den last May they found a 23 year old North Philadelphia [woman], wearing makeup and dressed in red bikini shorts, bleeding to death on the floor.

Two hours later, [deadname] Byrd died at Cooper Memorial Hospital in Cam den. Yesterday, just three blocks from the hospital, Camden Superior Court Judge Mary Ellen Talbott sen tenced the man convicted of stabbing Byrd more than 40 times to 40 years in prison 30 to be served without parole.

Theodore Roebuck, 34, of Germantown, testified that he had acted in self-defense when the "pretty young girl" he picked up at a Philadelphia bar turned out to be a [trans woman] and robbed him in his hotel room.

The jury deliberated five hours - March 22 before finding Roebuck guilty of murder.

Source: Philadelphia Daily News, May 4, 1985

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Report added: 24 Feb 2019. Last updated: 11 Mar 2024

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