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22-year-old Asia Jynaé Foster shot to death in Houston on Trans Day of Remembrance
On November 20, Asia Jynai Foster was killed. Asia was 22 years old and a Black trans woman living in Houston, Texas.
November 20 was also the Trans Day of Remembrance, an international observation of trans neighbors who have been killed. According to Outsmart
A 22-year-old Black transgender woman was shot and killed in west Houston on Friday, November 20, according to the Houston Police Department (HPD). The victim’s body was found with gunshot wounds at 3400 East Greenridge Drive.
A young woman was found shot to death Friday night in a west Houston road.A passerby driving home around 10:50 p.m. saw a body on the 3400 block of East Greenridge Drive near Skyline Drive and and flagged down a nearby police officer, said Detective Willis Huff of the Houston Police Department.
She was shot multiple times and left to die on a road in the darkness of the night.
Asia was a Houston native. She worked at a local business and had been involved in Job Corp. She liked racing themed video games. Her social media is filled with the ups and downs, the joys and angst of any American young twentysomething.
Community members and loved ones gathered in Houston on Sunday for a candlelight vigil to…
