Latina Trans Woman Unique Banks, 21, Killed in Chicago Mass Shooting

Sue Kerr
4 min readJan 27
Unique Banks via Facebook

A devastating tragedy in Chicago on Monday left a 21-year-old Latinx trans woman, Unique Banks, and her mother, Alexsandra Olmo, 43, both dead. They were killed in a mass shooting that targeted the two women, Olmo’s boyfriend, and two other transgender women. The three survivors are all hospitalized with critical injuries.

Sue Kerr

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