by Ann E. Marimow

March 9, 2017

 

Three men face hate-crimes charges in connection with the deadly shooting last summer of a 22-year-old transgender woman and for targeting two other transgender women, according to court papers filed this week.

A D.C. grand jury returned an indictment on Wednesday in the July 4 shooting of Deeniquia Dodds that occurred during an alleged robbery. Dodds was found unconscious and bleeding, and died in the hospital nine days later.

Three defendants — Jalonte Little, Monte T. Johnson and Cyheme Hall — are charged in a robbery conspiracy and with first-degree felony murder that prosecutors now say in the indictment was motivated by prejudice because of the gender identity of the victims.

The men are accused of committing four other robberies or attempted robberies on the same day, including the robbery of another transgender woman. According to the indictment, the men are also charged with assaulting a third transgender woman.

 

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