Trans Woman Was Shot While Receiving Treatment In Ambulance

Monica Diamond, a trans woman from Dunn, North Carolina, has been murdered in the back of an ambulance in front of the police and the medics who were trying to keep her alive. 

The shooting took place in the parking lot of a Days Inn motel in Charlotte where Diamond was in EMS’s care. After the police received a disturbance call from the motel’s security guard and arrived at the scene they found Diamond in EMS’ care and asking for assistance from a friend, presumably 32-year-old Prentice Bess who was also at the scene. Bess then reportedly left the scene and returned with a firearm which he fired at Diamond in the open vehicle “multiple” times, killing her.

Prentice Bess has been arrested and charge as police are undergoing investigation trying to piece all the events together.

According to ‘LGBTQ Nation’ and based on her Facebook profile, Diamond founded NC Phyne Promotions on May 4, 2009. She also was the co-CEO of the International Mother of the Year pageant system, which was organized to “give something back to the mothers in the LGBT community to say thanks for what you do.”

“Through her work, Diamond spent her adult life creating community and spaces for LGBTQ people in Charlotte and beyond to come together and celebrate their lives,” HRC press secretary Elliott Kosuch wrote. “She was a chosen mother to countless. She was a business owner, a loving friend and she did not deserve to have her life taken from her.”

“We must demand better — from each other, from policymakers, and from community leaders,” HRC President Alphonso David tweeted, describing himself as ‘heartbroken’.

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