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Anti-Trans Violence in Texas Has Claimed the Lives of at Least 20 People Since 2020. The Latest Is Black Trans Woman Vanity Williams Who Was Shot to Death in Houston — Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
‘I don’t fear death! I fear injustice!’
A 34-year-old Black transgender woman named Vanity Williams was killed in Houston on August 3, 2024. Her death came to our attention through HRC.
The Crime
Vanity was found shot to death in a Houston home.
From the Houston Police Department
HPD patrol officers responded to a shooting call at the apartment complex at the above address and found an unresponsive female with gunshot wounds. Houston Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene and pronounced the female, later identified as Ms. Williams, deceased.
Several days later, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana arrested the suspect in Vanity’s murder. Tristian Sanders, 26, was arrested after he was found at a home in the 600 Block of Lac Verret Drive in Luling. Sanders is in Louisiana custody awaiting extradition to Texas.
