An eyewitness told officers that Ms Dominguez – who lived in Kansas – had gotten out of a black SUV that then intentionally ran her over – before reversing over her and and running over her a second time.
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Tamara Dominguez of Kansas City, Mo., is the latest transgender American murdered in 2015, in a brutal killing that police have not labeled a hate crime.
Her murder brings to 17 the number of transgender Americans killed this year, all of them women, most of them women of color.
The photos attached are of a similar vehicle that was involved in the death of Dominquez, not the actual vehicle.
Authorities are treating the incident as an aggravated assault but said it is too early to say for sure whether the attack was a hate crime.
Rendon has launched a GoFundMe campaign to send Dominguez’s body to her family in Mexico.
Friends of Dominguez said they couldn’t believe someone could be so vicious and heartless.
The parking lot where Tamara was killed is quickly filling up with flowers, notes, and candles as family and friends leave memorial gifts as they attempt to come to grips with her tragic death. “It ain’t fair”, Rendon said. “They don’t understand. For some people being transsexual or transgender or gay they think it’s funny”.
“He just wants to say to the person that did that to her, that he would forgive them for what he did to her, and he hopes that he can forget what he did”.
‘We are not here to judge nobody and he hopes that person really feels bad for what they did’.
Family members are certain of one thing – she was loved. “He doesn’t know she has family”, he said of Dominguez’s attacker. She had her mom.
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‘He doesn’t know she has family.
