Koko Da Doll, one of the memorable topics from the latest documentary “Kokomo City,” is lifeless … and the movie’s director says she was shot and killed consequently of trans violence.
D. Smith — director of the shifting, award-winning doc featured this 12 months at Sundance — shared the unhappy information Friday, saying Koko, AKA Rasheeda Williams, “was shot and killed in Atlanta” Tuesday evening.
She added, Williams’ dying makes her “the latest victim of violence against Black transgender women,” — however says she is going to “inspire generations to come and will never be forgotten.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Atlanta PD says cops responded to reviews of a taking pictures simply earlier than 11 PM, and investigators discovered a lady who had been shot — she was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
For these unaware, “Kokomo City” took residence 2 awards at this 12 months’s Sundance Film Festival — following Black transgender intercourse employees, together with Williams, as they lived and labored in New York and ATL.
Williams, together with Daniella Carter, Liyah Mitchell, and Dominique Silver, precisely put a highlight on the horrendous threats ladies like them face every day.
Sundance can also be paying respects, saying “We were honored to have her at the Festival this year with KOKOMO CITY, where she reminded Black trans women, ‘we can do anything, we can be whatever we want to be.’ It is a tragic loss.”
Williams was 35.
RIP
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