Five years after Rosemary Gamble’s granddaughter, a transgender woman named Tiara Richmond, was shot to death at age 24, Gamble has yet to see justice. And a new analysis by the Tribune indicates that the odds are against her.
Lacrisha Alexander writes a happy birthday message as she hosts a barbecue party in Chicago's Avalon Park to celebrate the birthday of her transgender daughter, Tyianna Alexander, on June 11, 2022. Tyianna was killed in 2021.
Chicago transgender advocate LaSaia Wade called that track record “deplorable,” but said she was not surprised by it.of the Brave Space Alliance LGBTQ center on the South Side. Wade said she and other advocates had to push very hard to get an arrest in a 2018 case, and her attempt to expand the Police Department’s LGBTQ training had been unsuccessful.
Closer to home, a victim’s family member said the Tribune’s findings were in line with his own observations. Yes, said Gamble, whose transgender granddaughter had been known as Donnell before she transitioned. The officers said they needed to talk to Gamble, so she buzzed them up and asked what the problem was.Transgender woman Tiara Richmond, 24, was fatally shot in 2017.
For this story, the Tribune compared the percentage of transgender homicides from 2010 to the present that were considered solved by police , to the percentage of homicides overall in 2010-2021 that were considered solved.The solve rate for homicides of transgender people was 23%, compared with a 38% solve rate for homicides overall.
Gamble said that police officers repeatedly failed to return her calls about her granddaughter’s case. Even when Gamble went to Georgia to care for an injured relative, she kept calling, she said, but without success. A breast cancer survivor, Lacrisha Alexander doted on her 28-year-old daughter Tyianna, doing her hair and cooking for her every Sunday. After Tyianna’s death in January 2021, Alexander woke up repeatedly — her heart racing with anxiety — at 4 a.m., about the time that her daughter was shot.
“I don’t know where that gun may have gone,” the former suspect said. “All I can assume is that one of that person’s friends must have taken the gun off them.”Ciara Frazier’s father, Darrin, said he disagreed with that decision and was trying to figure out his options. Richmond would run over to Gamble’s home every morning, still wearing her pajamas, and beg her to take her to work with her, Gamble recalled with a chuckle. When other kids gravitated to Gamble, Richmond could get possessive, telling the interlopers, “That’sGamble called her firstborn grandchild “Booman,” a loving reference to Richmond’s curiosity and talent for mischief.
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