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First federal gender-based hate crime trial underway in South Carolina

By Barnini Chakraborty
Published February 20, 2024 1:02pm ET
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First federal gender-based hate crime trial underway in South Carolina
The Matthew J. Perry, Jr. Courthouse in Columbia, S.C.. The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin at the courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 20, where Daqua Lameek Ritter faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

Jury selection began Tuesday in a South Carolina courtroom for the first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity. 

Daqua Lameek Ritter is facing life behind bars for the 2019 fatal shooting of Dime Doe, a black 24-year-old transgender woman.

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