Photo: Koko Da Doll | By Samantha Riedel, Them | Rasheeda Williams, a Black trans woman and performing artist better known by her stage names Koko Da Doll and Hollywood Koko, was shot and killed in Atlanta, GA on [April 19th] night. She was 35 years old.
According to reporting in Gaye Magazine, Atlanta police have confirmed that a person was shot on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW and Hamilton E. Holmes NW late Wednesday. Police sources did not confirm Williams’ identity, but friends and family stated that she was the victim in social media posts obtained by the magazine. No details about the killing have been made public at this time.
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Williams was a rapper, releasing her first single “Trick” in 2020 followed by 2022’s “Bulletproof.” She was also working on new music, as she teased in a vlog last year.
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Williams’ death marks at least the tenth violent killing of a trans person in the U.S. this year, per numbers maintained by Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents. Her murder comes less than two weeks after Ashley Burton was also shot to death in Atlanta. No arrests in that case have been made public. And in January, Georgia state police shot nonbinary activist Tortuguita — who was protesting the development of a police training facility colloquially called “Cop City” — at least 57 times.
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rasheeda-williams-star-documentary-kokomo-202852577.html
http://www.GoFundMe.com/kokos-homegoing-arrangements
Photo: Koko Da Doll
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Musician Rasheeda Williams, Star of the Documentary Kokomo City, Shot, Killed in Atlanta
