23 year old Black Trans Woman Elie Che Found Dead in New York City

Sue Kerr
4 min readSep 3, 2020
Elie Che, Instagram

August 31, 2020 we lost another trans neighbor, a 23-year-old Black woman from Harlem. Her body was found in the Bronx. Her name was Elie.

Police found the woman unconscious and unresponsive in the sand near Orchard Beach Road and Park Drive at approximately 6:09 a.m. EMS responders arrived shortly thereafter and pronounced her dead.

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Sue Kerr

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