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Both McKinney and Henderson were convicted of the murder, and each received two consecutive life sentences. Shepard's murder, along with that of Brandon Teena, led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States. [120] [121] Rita Hester was a transgender African American woman who was murdered in Allston, Massachusetts in 1998. [139]
The childhood of Brandon Andrew Clark (born October 6, 1997; 21 at the time he murdered Devins) [6] [7] was traumatic: he once witnessed his father holding his mother at knifepoint for several hours. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Upon meeting Clark, Devins' mother, Kimberly Devins, said he "seemed very nice" and was "polite".
The shooter, Shelton Epps, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, [3] as was Matthew Taylor. Derrick Maiden testified against Taylor and Epps as part of a plea bargain. [3] The circumstances of Owen's murder were linked to the murders of other gay men that were connected to the gay.com chatrooms.
In December 1993, Humboldt was the site of a triple murder, including the rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a transgender man. [6] Three Ball Charlie, pictured on the cover of The Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St., grew up in Humboldt.
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Teena may refer to: People. Brandon Teena (1972–1993), American murder victim; Teena Marie (1956–2010), American singer, songwriter, and producer; Teena Rochfort-Smith (1861–1883), British Shakespeare scholar and philologist; Fictional characters. Teena (comic strip), a cartoon panel series and comic strip created by Hilda Terry
In 2000, Buckel was the lead lawyer for the estate of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was raped and murdered in Nebraska, when Teena's family recovered damages against negligent law enforcement officers. [9] Buckel stated, "It's a very important case, not only within Nebraska but nationally."
The decade of the 1990s was a pivotal time for the LGBT community, with the rise of HIV/AIDS and the rise of ACT UP, the Riot grrrl Movement and Queercore, the murder of Brandon Teena, and pro and anti LGBTQ+ legislation across the country, including Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992). [1] Many of these issues were not discussed widely in ...