Shahere Diamond Jackson-McDonald, a 27-year-old Black transgender woman, was found fatally shot in her mother’s apartment on the 400 block of Manheim Street in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022. Police responded to a call at about 12:10 a.m. and discovered her face-down on the kitchen floor with multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m. The apartment door was open and officers reported no signs of forced entry.

Investigators have noted that the lack of forced entry suggests Jackson-McDonald may have known her attacker, but it has not been determined whether the shooting was a hate crime. Law enforcement and local LGBTQ+ leaders publicly appealed for information that could lead to an arrest. No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the investigation remains ongoing; her death was recorded as the 35th known killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in the U.S. in 2022.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please come forward.