Vianna Faye Williams ("Felicia")
Age 3624 Dec 1997
Jersey City, New Jersey (USA)
Stabbed
TDoR list ref: tdor.info/24 Dec 1997/Vianna Faye Williams
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
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