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26-Year-Old Trans Woman Zachee Imanitwitaho Killed in Louisville
26-year-old Zachee Imanitwitaho was a Black trans woman, born in the African nation of Rwanda. She immigrated to the US in 2019 and settled in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
On Friday, February 3, Zachee was shot and killed near her workplace at JB Swift in Louisville around 3 PM CST. Police found her suffering form multiple gunshot wounds. She died on the scene. The 58-year-old suspect left the scene and turned himself in to police. Employees at JBS informed police both the suspect and victim were employed at the facility. It is unknown what if any relationship they had or what motivated the suspect to murder her.
JB Swift is a meat packing plant.
Reports indicate that the company required all employees to finish their shift even after their colleague was brutally murdered in the parking lots. There’s also the abysmal failure of Louisville media to describe the gender of Zachee.
In what I can only describe as a vicious decision by the media and the Jefferson County Coroner, an “official statement” was issued Saturday, February 4, clarifying her gender identity — once they took her body to the morgue, they found “evidence” she was allegedly male. And they released a statement. They didn’t allow for the possibility that she was…
