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A South Carolina man was found guilty on Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nations first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity...
Jurors decided that Daqua Lameek Ritter fatally shot Dime Doe three times on August 4, 2019, because of her gender identity..
The four-day trial centred on the secret sexual relationship between Doe and Ritter, who had grown agitated in the weeks preceding the killing by the exposure of their affair in the small town of Allendale, South Carolina, according to witness testimony and text messages obtained by the FBI...
