Transgender Political Coalition calls on Berry murder to be prosecuted as hate crime

OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – by O&AN Staff Reports

[Editor’s note: The following is a press release issued by the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition]

Last night, WREG-TV in Memphis reported that the man who was charged with the February 16, 2006, murder of Tiffany Berry, has now been arraigned on a second murder charge. On Thursday, authorities in Shelby County charged DeAndre Blake with the murder of his own two year old daughter.

At the time of this second murder, Blake was walking the streets of Memphis as a free man on a $20,000 bond. According to Berry’s family, Blake admitted he had killed Berry because he did not like the way she had “touched” him.