Posted on 06/29/2017 10:27:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
The weekend fatal shooting of a teen at an apartment complex near downtown Athens was the culmination of a feud between two transgender groups, Athens-Clarke County police confirmed Wednesday.
Rayquann Deonte Jernigan, 17, who was known to friends by the chosen name of Ava Le’Ray Barrin, was killed Sunday morning by a single gunshot fired by 21-year-old Jalen Breon Brown in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments on College Avenue, police said.
Neither lived in the complex and both were there to visit friends who did live there when the deadly confrontation occurred, said Capt. Jerry Saulters, commanding officer of the Athens-Clarke County police Criminal Investigations Division.
The initial argument that started the feud was not even between Brown and Jernigan, who had not yet legally changed his name, Saulters said.
“It started out as an argument between friends of the suspect and victim,” Saulters said.
Jernigan and two friends were in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments at about 11:45 a.m. when they crossed paths with Brown, the police captain said.
Brown was on the second floor of one of the apartment buildings and the victim was in the parking lot when they reportedly began to argue. Saulters said Brown fired a “warning” shot in the direction of the victim, before he went down to the parking lot where he and Jernigan began fighting.
During the altercation, Brown shot the victim in the side of the chest, police said.
Jernigan was not breathing when police arrived, and was pronounced dead after being taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Brown, who was located by police at the complex, claimed he shot Jernigan in self-defense, a motive that police discounted.
“It did not hold up because he fired towards the victim prior to the fight, and a fight does not constitute deadly force,” Saulters said.
Brown was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault. He was being held without bail at the Clarke County Jail.
Several transgender organizations issued statements concerning the fatal shooting, including Black Transwomen Inc.
“What saddens and infuriates us as an organization that seeks to represent and empower black trans women is that Ava was just 17 years old and hadn’t even had a chance to follow her dreams yet,” the statement said. “Ava has become not only the 14th trans woman murdered in the U.S. in 2017, she unfortunately is now the youngest one killed this year. She is also the 12th African American trans person killed this year.”
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La-a
Also known as “Ladasha”.
If they are both black and transgender, they can get into Harvard just by signing their name on the application form.
A sad fairy tale.
Hell hath no fury like a bitchy faggot scorned ...
I remember that too. You will not see a Dr. with the name Dr.Rayquann Deonte Jernigan. The left has totally destroyed the black culture just for votes.
What you did there......I SEE IT!.........................
“There, Fixed it.”
Yes, not a biology denier. Cutting the balls off a bull does not make it a heifer. It’s just a steer, or Boys without gear.
Them boys are going to extremes to not be pestered by big bullies.
Unless the fight is with a member of the constabulary, in which case you and your dog/wife/kids/girlfriend/innocent passersby/etc. are likely to end up dead, dead, and more dead.
Thank you. #25 and #26.
Cue the scene from, “300,” where Leonidas refers to the Athenians as, “boy lovers.”
"...sign their name on the application form..."
What the reporter left out is that the area along Woodward where he/she was found was a known gathering place where prostitutes and drug dealers sold their "products".
So as for the motive of the murder, my amateur hypothesis is that the "college student" may have performed an oral service in return for college tuition on a gentleman who may have been a bit upset to find out that "she" was actually a "he".............just a guess.
Somewhere now and when the final version of this story is fleshed out, President Trump will get the blame for it.
Mental health in this story is just bleeding out before our eyes.
Another homocide.
In 1919, Hungary’s youth, having been fed a steady diet of Marxist values-neutral (atheism) and radical sex education while simultaneously encouraged to rebel against all authority, easily turned into delinquents ranging from bullies and petty thieves to sex predators, murderers, and sociopaths.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
What you did there, I see it!..................
I was thinking Athens, Greece until I read some of the names.
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