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A transgender woman was found shot and killed early Monday morning outside of a College Park apartment complex . Atlanta resident TeeTee Dangerfield , 32, was found with multiple gunshot wounds outside of her vehicle at the South Hampton Estates apartment complex on July 31 at about 4:30 a.m., according to the College Park Police Department . Major Lance Patterson told Georgia Voice that College Park Fire Rescue took Dangerfield to Grady Memorial Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. Patterson also said her family had been notified. There are no suspects at this time, according to Patterson. “Detectives are out there right now following up on leads that have been coming in since then,” he said. It’s also unclear whether Dangerfield’s murder had something to do with her being transgender. “At this time we don’t have anything that’s telling us that, but we’re not ruling out any possible motive,” Patterson said. The incident occurred just two days after a Midtown rally and ...

College Park Police said they found Tee Tee Dangerfield in her car early Monday morning (Facebook photo) (Photo: WXIA) COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- More than two weeks after a trans woman was found shot to death in College Park, police confirm they've arrested a suspect. Tuesday night, police arrested 26-year-old Tyrone Kemp for the July 31 murder of Tee Tee Dangerfield . Kemp is charged with malice murder. According to College Park Police Cpl . Lance Patterson, Dangerfield was found shot to death in her car at the South Hampton Estates apartment complex in the 3100 block of Godby Road.  Dangerfield was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital but was later pronounced dead. At this point, it is not clear if the murder had anything to do with Dangerfield being transgender. RELATED | Trans teen's death was result of dispute between groups Dangerfield became the sixteenth transgender person murdered in the United States in 2017 and the second killed in metro Atlanta in the past sever...

A man wanted in connection to the December 2015 shooting death of a paraplegic man in Algiers was captured over the weekend in Houston, more than 20 months after the murder, New Orleans police said.  Jeren Johnson , 25, was killed Dec. 6, 2015, while riding in the passenger seat of his friend's car, according to NOPD and Johnson's mother, Tancy Johnson. She said she received a call about 12:30 a.m. Sunday (Aug. 20) from an officer alerting her the suspect in her son's case, Shanta Massey, had been arrested in Houston.    Online records from the Harris County, Texas, jail show Massey , 24, was booked into the jail on Baker Street in Houston Sunday on an out-of-state warrant. Johnson, 46, said Monday the officer whose call woke her told her Massey was captured late Saturday related to her son's death and was booked the following morning.   Police found Jeren Johnson shot to death inside a Nissan Altima that had crashed into a truck in the 2600 block of Gen. Collins S...

click to enlarge I can’t remember exactly when I started at the Riverfront Times , but it was a long time ago — the web site was a .PDF of the paper that was uploaded on Wednesday morning . I can say that I’ve lived or worked (sometimes both) in the Loop since Bill Clinton was in the White House. I've been coming down here for films, books, meals and weird people watching since the late ‘80s, back when gangs of feral kids camped out in the street- level parking lot across from the Tivoli. The stretch of Delmar between the St. Louis Noodle Cafe and the University City Public Library has been my psycho-geographical concept of St. Louis for more than half my life. But now I'm in the process of packing up my office in preparation for a move. This afternoon, the RFT is leaving our home of 21 years on Delmar. By tomorrow, the paper will be based in Downtown West, and so will I, at least during office hours. Goodbye to all that. We’re only the latest business to say that...