Mia Henderson
Age 2616 Jun 2014
Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
Beaten
TDoR list ref: tgeu/16-Jun-2014/Mia Henderson
Mia was killed after she refused a man who offered her $10 for a date. Before she was killed they were seen walking down an alley together by a witness.
In August 2015 Shawn Oliver was charged with her murder.
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Police Department have charged a man in the 2014 murder of a transgender woman.
On July 16, 2014, Mia Henderson, whose legal name is [deadname], was brutally murdered on the 3400 Piedmont Avenue.
Her death was one of two murders that rocked the LGBT community. A month earlier, Kandy Hall was found stabbed to death in June of 2014. Her killer remains at large.
On Thursday, police announced charges against Shawn Oliver for killing Mia Henderson. Police said during the attack, Mia fought her attacker which eventually led to the discovery of DNA evidence under Mia’s fingernails.
Mia was the sibling of the NBA Detroit Pistons' star Reggie Bullock. In the aftermath of Mia's murder he became a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ people:
Bullock has been an avid advocate for the LGBTQ+ community throughout his NBA career, which started right after the murder of his sister Mia Henderson in 2014. Henderson was transgender, and Bullock said her killing was “something that hit home for me and my family.”
“It definitely had me use my platform to stand up and do what’s right for her and my family,” Bullock talked with Ernie Johnson on the TNT broadcast prior to Game 3. “I got linked with all the right organizations and everything around to help me her name back to light and shed light on others to stop crazy things like this from happening in the world.
TvT project: WCTI 12, 24.07.2014 & The Advocate 16.06.2014
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/08/06/man-charged-in-the-2014-murdSer-of-mia-henderson/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mia-henderson-transgender-murder-baltimore-_n_5595034
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/07/17/police-investigate-second-transgender-murder-this-summer/
https://twitter.com/ReggieBullock35/status/629378892235677696
