PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has released the name of the suspect wanted in the murder of Dominique Rem’mie Fells, an African American transgender woman. Officials are searching for 36-year-old Akhenaton Jones.
Officials found Fells’ dismembered body last week in the Schuylkill River, near a Southwest Philadelphia dock.
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Credit: Philadelphia police
Police sources tell CBS3 dismembered legs, dry blood stains, trash bags and a knife with blood on it were found throughout a home on the 3900 block of Powelton Avenue. Sources also say the home had a strong odor of decomposition.
Activists said her murder is part of a disturbing trend.
MORE NEWS: Officials Investigating Cause Of Fire At Bellmawr Motor Inn On Black Horse Pike In Camden County“For my first thought to be, not again, means that this is happening way too much.” -@vote4alvarez #Philly’s LGBT community in mourning as @PhillyPolice investigate the murder of Dominique Rem’mie Fells, a trans woman whose body was found in the Schuylkill River @CBSPhilly @ 5pm pic.twitter.com/DLdddANfy2
— Trang Do (@TrangDoCBS3) June 12, 2020
At least seven transgender women have been murdered in Philadelphia since 2013.
