Kee Sam
Age 2413 Aug 2020
Lafayette, Louisiana (USA)
Shot
TDoR list ref: tgeu/12-Aug-2020/Kee Sam
Kee was found in a hotel suffering from a gunshot wound on Wednesday 12th August. She died in hospital the following day.
Another Black trans woman has been brutally slain in America. Kee Sam, 24, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was found suffering from a gunshot wound in a hotel on NE Evangeline Thruway [in the in 2200 block] on Wednesday, August 12. She was rushed to a local hospital, but passed away from her injuries the following day. Police have arrested a juvenile in connection with her killing. Sam is believed to be at least the 28th transgender person violently killed this year in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Police were called to the hotel in northern Lafayette in the afternoon of August 12. There they found Sam in critical condition. Officers administered first aid at the scene before transporting her to the hospital, where she subsequently passed away. Early media reports on her murder misgendered Sam and used her deadname. HRC estimates that nearly 75 percent of all known trans victims are misgendered by the media, law enforcement, and office holders.
Sam’s death is the third violent killing of a trans person in Louisiana in as many months. In July, Shaki Peters, 32, was found dead in the town of Amite near Baton Rouge. Her death is being investigated as a homicide, although police released few details about the cause of death. Later that same month Queasha D Hardy, 24, was gunned down in broad daylight in Baton Rouge. She was found lying in the street shortly after noon and died at the scene.
Kee's Instagram profile is https://www.instagram.com/tskeke1000/.
In October 2023 Kennon Milstead, 19, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for Kee's murder.
Kennon Milstead, 19, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, in the 2020 shooting death of 24-year-old Kee Sam, a Black transgender woman. Milstead was also given credit for time served; he has been in law enforcement custody since his initial arrest in the case in August 2020.
Milstead was sentenced by 15th Judicial District Court Judge Royale Colbert. He was initially indicted on a charge of second-degree murder in the case, but in May pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter as part of a plea deal.
https://www.out.com/transgender/2020/9/30/kee-sam-28th-known-trans-person-violently-killed-2020
https://avp.org/ncavp-mourns-the-death-of-kee-sam-24-year-old-black-transgender-woman-lafayette/
https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-mourns-kee-sam-black-trans-woman-killed-in-louisiana
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/9/30/black-trans-women-killed-philadelphia-louisiana
https://avp.org/ncavp-mourns-the-death-of-kee-sam-24-year-old-black-transgender-woman-lafayette/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDO6goVA4zQ/
