TDoR 1998 / 1997 / December / 24 / Vianna Faye Williams ("Felicia")


Vianna Faye Williams ("Felicia")

Age 36

24 Dec 1997
Jersey City, New Jersey (USA)
Stabbed

TDoR list ref: tdor.info/24 Dec 1997/Vianna Faye Williams

Vianna Faye Williams ("Felicia")
Vianna Faye Williams ("Felicia") [photo: students673.ucr.edu]

Vianna suffered nine stab wounds to back, neck, and chest. The suspect was a 12-year-old boy.

"We believe Williams was dead at least two days prior to being found," said Chief Robert Martin of the Hudson County prosecutor's office. Williams, a 36 year-old Jamaica native, was two weeks from her appointment for sexual reassignment surgery.

Friends said that Ms. Williams, also known as Felicia, had worked as a police officer and a nurse in Jamaica. Since coming to the U.S. she had worked in a bank and as a professional dancer in Manhattan. She had also worked as a [sex worker] after she lost her job in the bank.

Neighbors of Williams expressed shock and dismay upon hearing of her murder. Said the owner of a hair salon nearby, "I can't believe somebody would do that to her. Nobody deserves that."

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-killing-of-transgender/75526217/

http://www.qrd.org/qrd/trans/1998/in.your.face.media.advisory-03.01.98

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10_JeZ7LEIRhvewTCoL5mVkH6MQJzf7fSXl4-P6QJ0v0/edit#gid=0

Report added: 17 Feb 2019. Last updated: 11 Mar 2024

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