Duanna Johnson was a 43-year-old Black transgender woman who was found shot to death and left on a street corner in North Memphis on November 9, 2008. Months earlier she had been beaten by Memphis police officers while handcuffed; that assault was captured on video and led to the firing of two officers. Johnson filed a lawsuit against the Memphis Police Department over the beating and was pursuing that legal action when she was killed.

Witnesses to the November shooting reported hearing gunshots and seeing three men flee the scene, but no arrests were ever made and the case remains unsolved. Her death came amid public attention to her earlier assault and her advocacy against racism, homophobia, and transphobia.

Does anyone have information about Johnson’s killing or remember seeing anything in North Memphis on the night she was shot?