Man convicted of hate crime for murdering transgender woman in first-of-its-kind trial verdict

Background: This combo photo of undated selfie shows Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman. On Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, Daqua Lameek Ritter was found guilty of shooting Doe three times on Aug. 4, 2019, because of her gender identity in the first federal trial based on a bias-motivated crime of that sort. (Dime Doe Family via AP, File)/Inset: Daqua Ritter booking photo. YouTube Screengrab CBS affiliate WLTX.

Background: This combo photo of undated selfie shows Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman. On Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, Daqua Lameek Ritter was found guilty of shooting Doe three times on Aug. 4, 2019, because of her gender identity in the first federal trial based on a bias-motivated crime of that sort. (Dime Doe Family via AP, File). Inset: Daqua Ritter booking photo (YouTube screengrab/WLTX.)

It took a jury four days to make history when it found a man guilty of all charges — including a federal hate crime — for the slaying of Dime Doe, a transgender Black woman lured into the remote woods of South Carolina and shot three times in her head.

Daqua Lameek Ritter, also known as “Quavo,” according to Justice Department prosecutors, is the first person in the United States to be convicted of a federal hate crime related to someone’s gender identity. Doe was 24 years old and murdered, the jury found, because Ritter was embarrassed when she publicly revealed their romantic relationship.

When Ritter coaxed Doe to come to the woods of rural Allendale, South Carolina, he gunned her down in cold blood because she was transgender, prosecutors said — and this factor specifically allowed jurors to lock in an unprecedented federal hate crime charge.

Ritter was also found guilty of tampering with a witness, victim or informant, and also of a single firearm charge.

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