— A former Navy sailor has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2016 stabbing death of a transgender woman in Mississippi. Dwanya Hickerson, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder in the killing of Dee Whigham in a St. Martin hotel room on July 23. Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Leo Allen said surveillance video showed Hickerson and Whigham walking together into a Best Western Hotel room around 8:30 p.m. He said after they had a form of sex at the hotel, she told him she was a transgender woman. “He gets a chance to see his family and I don’t have that chance with my child.”——Information from: WLOX-TV, http://www.wlox.com

Source: National Post July 20, 2017 23:03 UTC