Keyonna Blakeney Becomes 9th Transgender Person Killed in U.S. in 2016

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On the same day that the man responsible for Islan Nettles' death was sentenced to 12 years in prison, another black transgender woman was reported dead.

This time it's 22-year-old Keyonna Blakeney, who was found killed in Maryland, according to the Advocate.

Activists say that nine have been killed so far in 2016, including two in a 48-hour period in February. At least two dozen transgender women, many of them of color, have been killed in two years, a figure that many consider an undercount given that there's no official count of the transgender community in the United States.