Jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the murder of a woman referred to as 'Dime Doe.'
A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation's first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity.After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the murder of a woman referred to as 'Dime Doe' in 2019. Ritter was also found guilty of using a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting and obstructing justice.A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
But text messages obtained by the FBI suggested that Ritter sought to keep their relationship under wraps as much as possible, prosecutors said. He reminded her to delete their communications from her phone, and hundreds of texts sent in the month before her death were removed.Shortly before Doe's death, their exchanges grew tense. In one message from July 29, 2019, she complained that Ritter did not reciprocate her generosity.
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