Pebbles LaDime 'Dime' Doe, 24, was killed in 2019 and remembered by friends and family as 'the best to be around.'
Two men have been charged in relation to the 2019 murder of a Black transgender woman in South Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. In a five-count federal indictment, the two men were charged with hate crime and obstruction offenses in the death of Pebbles LaDime"Dime" Doe, 24, according to aDaqua Ritter, 26, was charged with a hate crime as well as using a firearm in connection with a hate crime and obstruction of justice.
Xavier Pinckney, 24, was charged with two obstruction offenses for providing false and misleading statements to authorities investigating the murder. The obstruction offense, like Ritter's, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, while the count charging him with lying to federal investigators carries a maximum penalty of five years, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Ritter shot Doe on Aug. 4, 2019"because of her actual and perceived gender identity," prosecutors allege. Ritter then allegedly misled state investigators about his whereabouts on the day of the murder, and Pinckney"concealed from state investigators" that he had used his cell phone to call and text Doe the day of the murder. Pinckney also allegedly lied about seeing Ritter after he murdered Doe.
, Doe was found dead from gunshot wounds in a car parked in a driveway and was the 15th transgender person to be murdered in 2019. Friends and family remembered the 24-year-old as"the best to be around."
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