Impersonators-Murdered Across The Country, Coincidence?

3 Beyonce (Female) Impersonators-Murdered Across The Country, Coincidence?

Eric Lee, 21, (a Beyonce Impersonator) was stabbed repeatedly at an apartment complex in New Orleans. Police found Lee’s slashed body inside a first-floor apartment. Witnesses say they heard Lee arguing heatedly with a group of women before the time of the murder. While police have not announced a suspected motive for the killing, the MO fits a transphobic hate crime pattern. Residents who knew her say that Lee, who was in transition from male to female, often dressed in women’s clothing, and drew ridicule from the neighborhood because of it. An unidentified source told the Times-Picayune that Lee “dressed to the nines.” Carl Adams, who claimed that he did not know the victim well, told reporters that he had often heard Lee arguing with neighbors. ”Probably because they made fun of him,” he said.

In recent years, other trans and non-gender conforming African Americans who have identified with Beyonce have died at the hands of phobic killers.

Simmie Lewis Williams, Jr., 17, who also called himself “Beyoncé,” died from gunshot wounds in 2007 in the 1000 block of Sistrunk Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Adolphus “Beyoncé” Simmons, 18, a talented female impersonator from North Charleston, South Carolina, similarly died outside his apartment while carrying out the trash to a bin, also in 2007.