Sasha Wall
Sasha Wall, a transgender woman, was found shot dead in her car with the motor running on a rural road northeast of Columbia, S.C. She had been shot multiple times in the neck and shoulder.
Police suspect domestic violence rather than a random attack or hate crime. Because of the violence apparent at the scene, the sheriff told the local Fox affiliate said it looked like the attacker was very angry. From the evidence, the shooter was either in the car or standing right outside with the door open.
The Columbia newspaper The State and Fox46 mis-gendered the victim.
“The search is on for the person responsible for shooting and killing a man in his car along a rural road in Chesterfield County on Easter morning,” the Fox report begins.
WSOC’s headline was “Person found shot to death in car in Chesterfield County.” While not mis-gendering, they identified the victim by writing she was “known to family and friends as ‘Sasha Wall.’”
— David Taffet
