A Philadelphia jury on Monday found a man guilty of killing a transgender woman whom police found shot in the neck in the passenger seat after pulling over her killer’s car in 2020.
Abdullah El-Amin, 40, was found guilty of third-degree murder and possession of an instrument of crime in the death of Tracy "Mia" Green, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said.
“Too often, violence against LGBTQ+ people, and Black trans women like Mia Green in particular, happens in the shadows because of societal marginalization. I’m gratified that the Philadelphia criminal legal system increasingly reflects Philadelphians’ values of inclusion, and our city’s abhorrence of discrimination and bigotry," District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a press release.
Green’s killing came at a time of increased attacks against transgender individuals and months after fellow transgender woman Dominique Rem’mie Fells was found dismembered in the Schuylkill River, raising alarms among Philadelphia’s trans community.
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Green was discovered after El-Amin drove through a stop sign and police officers pulled the vehicle over.
El-Amin got out of the vehicle and told the officers his passenger had been shot, investigators said. The officers then found Green shot in the passenger seat. The DA's office said El-Amin shot Green multiple times at close range in the car.
Police escorted the vehicle to Penn-Presbyterian Hospital, where Green was pronounced dead. Investigators later determined El-Amin was responsible for Green’s death.
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"(Green) was very well-loved and respected and from all accounts from everyone in the community, she was an amazing, beautiful person," Deja Lynn Alvarez, a transgender community activist, told NBC10 at the time.
In 2020, the year Green was murdered, the Human Rights Campaign reported at least 37 killings of transgender individuals in the United States. In 2022, the organization lists at least 27 trans people killed.
In the Fells case, court records indicate accused killer Akhenaton Jones is still awaiting trial.
