Yahira Nesby
Age 3319 Dec 2019
Brooklyn, New York (USA)
Shot
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Yahira was found dead by police who were called to her apartment. She had been shot in the chest and leg. A man was been arrested trying to escape from the scene.
A woman who was shot to death at her home in Brooklyn on December 19 appears to have been a transgender woman, according to records, police accounts, social media posts, and news reports emerging in the hours since she was killed.
Police said they arrived at 178 Rockaway Parkway in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn at 4:20 p.m. and found a 33-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the chest. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene. Meanwhile, cops said they found a 39-year-old man outside the back of the building who had suffered leg injuries after he likely jumped from the building. Authorities took him into custody and questioned him but did not make any arrests.
Police would not confirm whether or not the woman they found was transgender, though they did not dispute that, and officers said in an email on December 19 that they were still trying to notify the victim’s family. Neighbors told News 12 Brooklyn that the victim was transgender.
Shortly after the police report emerged, a handful of social media posts surfaced on both Instagram and Facebook in which individuals stated that Yahira Nesby, a black trans woman who lived in Brooklyn, had died. In yet another sign that Nesby was the victim, online records show that her address was 178 Rockaway Parkway — the same place where cops discovered the body. Calls to phone numbers associated with Nesby at that address were not answered.
A black trans woman was murdered in Brooklyn Yesterday. Her name was Yahira Nesby Aka Yaya. My thoughts are with her family.
— Indya Moore (@IndyaMoore) December 20, 2019
New York fam. Please please please please be watchful and careful of these men. I beg of you.
Source: @ ttimenetwork via @instagram pic.twitter.com/vgazo5wKwB
Yahira was a ballroom dancer and a member of the House of Chanel. Her Facebook profile is https://www.facebook.com/yahira.nesby.90.
https://planettransgender.com/house-of-chanel-member-yahira-nesby-murdered/
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/12/20/trans-woman-yahira-nesby-murdered-brooklyn
http://www.newnownext.com/yahira-nesby-is-the-latest-transgender-murder-victim/12/2019/
https://www.gaycitynews.nyc/stories/2020/1/yahira-nesby-trans-murder-victim-2019-12-20-gcn.html
https://avp.org/ncavp-mourns-the-death-of-33-year-old-yahira-nesby-in-brooklyn-ny/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SNH0FJSdM/
https://twitter.com/IndyaMoore/status/1207971071451901952
https://www.facebook.com/monica.roberts.982/posts/10221464521663870
