San Coleman
Age 48 (born 29 Apr 1976)20 Oct 2024
Athens, Georgia (USA)
Murdered
San appears to have been murdered while walking on a trail behind the University of Georgia Chicopee Complex.
Police are investigating after 48-year-old trans person San Coleman was brutally murdered in Athens, Georgia, on October 19.
Athens-Clarke County Police were dispatched to a popular walking trail behind the University of Georgia’s Chicopee Complex, roughly a mile northeast of downtown Athens, at 9am on October 19 a passerby found Coleman critically injured and covered in blood.
While Coleman’s sister told 11 Alive (published in an article that misgenders Coleman) that “nobody would ever hurt [her],” Coleman’s death is presumed by police to have been a homicide perpetrated by someone walking their dog on the trail. Coleman’s phone was taken so she couldn’t call for help, and she died hours after being rushed to the hospital. Coleman’s family suspects that her LGBTQ identity may have played a role in her death.
Coleman’s identity has not been confirmed, as her family refers to her as a “gay man” with he/him pronouns, but Mutual Aid Athens noted in an Instagram post honoring her death that all photos of her online are of her presenting as a woman – and the reporters who have been covering her story have “very bad local track records with race and LGBTQ issues.”
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/trans-woman-murdered-found-covered-806453
https://thegavoice.com/news/georgia/athens-police-investigate-suspicious-death-of-san-coleman/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-investigate-suspicious-death-man-195456380.html
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/family-in-disbelief-after-athens-man-brutally-killed-walking-on-popular-trail/85-8c70848b-4f50-4ec8-8d4a-8b36b70d508f [https://archive.is/P9tLL]
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/athens-ga/santonio-coleman-12043795
