A model who worked for us just the once in 2015, was killed this week in Philadelphia by a gunshot to the neck. She was in a car with a driver, who has since been arrested and charged for her murder.

Read more at : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pa-transgender-woman-killed-man-172307682.html

The rate of black trans women being killed in the USA is atrocious and this is yet another victim.

Known as ‘Venus’, she appeared in one scene on BlackTgirls in 2015 photographed by Kilakali.

“This makes five girls I know dead in just over a month” said the producer “It’s becoming numbing at this point! It seems like every other day I wake up to some bad news”.

Venus was 29 when she was murdered.

Our thoughts with her friends and family.