Chyna Gibson, 31, who performed under the name Chyna Doll Dupree in the pageant and ballroom community, was shot to death outside of a shopping center in New Orleans East on Saturday evening.
Residents of the area said that they heard 8 to 10 shots. Chyna died at the scene. Her body was found between two cars parked in front of a clothing store.
A very loving person. She didn't do nothing to nobody.
--Chyna's aunt
Chyna was currently living in California but had traveled to Nola to celebrate Mardi Gras with friends and family.
Everyone loved her. This is unnecessary.
--a friend
Chyna was the fifth transgender woman reportedly murdered in 2017 and the third in February.
Chyna Gibson had gone home to New Orleans to like thousands of other people, celebrate Mardi Gras and be with her family during that festive time. Instead, she was brutally murdered. Shot ten times and left to die in the parking lot of a New Orleans strip mall. BTWI would like to express our condolences to Chyna’s family, friends and all who loved her. She was well known in the pageant and ballroom community as Chyna Doll Dupree, and she will be missed.
--Black Trans Women, Inc
The senseless murder of our trans sisters and brothers is something we simply cannot continue to ignore! I offer my deepest condolences to her friends and family. We say your name #ChynaGibson. To my LGBT brothers and sisters as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations – I will not stop fighting on your behalf. Your lives matter. #ChynaGibson.
--Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-Houston)
Last Tuesday another trans woman of color, 24-year-old Keke Collier, was shot and killed in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
According to LaSaia Wade, founder and director of trans justice organization TNTJ Project, Collier also went by the name Tiara Richmond.
According to witnesses Keke got into a car with a man who later shot her. She was found on the street and taken to Advocate Christ Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.