Democrat Sucess Stories - Four Arrested in Beating Death of Transgender Homo Pervert in Vermont Homeless Camp

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Four homeless people face murder charges after using their fists
and feet to fatally beat a transgender man in an encampment in
Vermont, and then fleeing across the country to a San Diego
beach, where they were arrested, officials said on Friday.

The four are accused of killing Amos Beede at the camp in
Burlington, the police chief, Brandon del Pozo, said at a news
conference. Mr. Beede was beaten up on May 22 and suffered blunt
force trauma to his brain, the police said. He died seven days
later.

Law enforcement officials said they were not ruling out the
possibility that the “brute force” assault on Mr. Beede had been
a bias attack.

The suspects — two men and two women — were arrested Thursday
night at Dog Beach in San Diego, a gathering place for the
homeless. The police in at least three states joined forces to
find them, partly with the help of technology that reads license
plates and that tracks phones, officials said.

They fled Vermont after the attack and ended up in Roswell,
N.M., where one of them had relatives, the police said. There,
one suspect, Erik Averill, 21, was briefly taken into police
custody after being accused of assaulting his partner, Myia
Barber, 22, who is also a suspect in the fatal beating. But Mr.
Averill was released, and the four continued their journey to
California.

The police identified the other two suspects as Allison Gee, 25,
and Jordan Paul, 21.

The four are being held in California on warrants accusing them
of second-degree murder, Chief del Pozo said. It was not
immediately clear when they would be sent to Vermont to face the
charges.

The chief said the beating started over a dispute in the
homeless camp; someone smeared feces on a tent from the south
side of the encampment, and Mr. Beede was believed to have
reacted by dumping urine in a north-side tent, the chief said.

Mr. Beede, 38, was not homeless. He had an apartment in Milton,
but he was staying with friends at the encampment over the
weekend because the local bus was not running, the police said.

Mr. Averill allegedly enlisted the help of the others to attack
Mr. Beede, the chief said. Then the four fled in a Chevy Malibu.
Officers in New Mexico helped track the suspects’ car, the
police said.

“There probably was not an elaborate escape plan,” Chief del
Pozo said.

There were many witnesses to the beating, but further details
were not available. The arrest warrant is sealed, the police
said.

The mayor of Burlington, Miro Weinberger, said that the city had
a chronic homelessness problem despite initiatives to remove the
encampments in a “humane” way. The tents are in an industrial
area known as the Pine Street Barge Canal.

“They really are full of squalor,” Chief del Pozo said.

In an interview with WPTZ, a Vermont television station, Mr.
Beede’s sister said that he previously tried to advocate for
toiletry supplies for the homeless residents at the camp,
collecting donations of supplies through Facebook postings.

“And that is what Amos was about, was helping others,” said his
sister, Ina McKinney.

Sitting next to their mother, Ms. McKinney said her family knew
that Mr. Beede was “not going to make it” as soon as they saw
him after the attack.

“He had motions in his arms, and it seemed like the same motion
as if he was reaching for us to let us know that he knew we were
there,” she said.

“We wanted him to wake up, and he couldn’t.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/us/four-arrested-in-beating-
death-of-transgender-man-in-vermont-homeless-camp.html
 

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