Remembering Our Dead

Sheila Santos

Sheila and two other people (a 55 year-old man and a 38 year-old woman) were shot several times by unidentified men in a car. Sheila died at the scene and the man died in hospital four days later.

A [trans woman] was killed and two people were injured in an attack on Avenida Contorno, in the place known as Gamboa, in Salvador , at dawn on Sunday (26), according to information from the Military Police.

According to police, a man driving a white car shot the victims. The [trans woman], known as Sheila, died at the scene. The injured, a 55-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were rescued to the State General Hospital (HGE). There is no information about their health.

TvT partner organisation Rede Trans Brasil & Informe Baiano, 26.06.2016

https://homofobiamata.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/sheila-santos-tiros-ba-salvador/

https://informebaiano.com.br/8526/policia/assassino-de-travesti-nenem-queria-se-vingar-de-rivais-da-gamboa-vitima-e-enterrada

http://informebaiano.com.br/8433/policia/luto-no-calabar-travesti-known-as-nenem-andmorta-a-tiros-na-av-contorno/

https://www.radiosalvadorfm.com.br/noticias/12072,morre-segunda-v-tima-de-ataque-que-deixou-travesti-morto-na-av-contorno.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170109025434/http://redetransbrasil.org:80/assassinatos.html

Report added: 18 Sep 2018. Last updated: 8 Oct 2022

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