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Transgender woman shot, killed and ‘left lying like a deer in the road’ moments before being hit by a car – WSB-TV Channel 2

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – What police initially investigated as a fatal hit-and-run accident is now being investigated as a fatal shooting.

DeKalb police said they found the victim’s body late Tuesday night at North Hairston Road and Trace Terrace. They believed the person died in a hit-and-run accident, but they have since learned the victim was also shot by someone.

The victim’s mother called the Channel 2 Action News Newsroom after they Tyisha Fernandes from Channel 2 report on Channel 2 Action News at noon.

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Tammy Boswell identified her child as Shannon Boswell, a transgender woman who is just days away from her 31st birthday.

“They killed my baby,” Tammy Boswell said.

She says she had to take a tough stance with Shannon over the past year because she disagreed with some of the things Shannon did.

“They killed him,” she said, crying. “I just wish he would have listened. God knows I tried over and over.”

She says she got calls Tuesday night from Shannon’s friends telling her someone had shot and killed Shannon, so she called DeKalb County police.

“I called about three times and each time they said there were no calls that anyone had been shot. His friend insisted he had been shot,” Tammy Boswell said.

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Police said they did not learn until the next day from the medical examiner that Shannon had been shot.

“I mean, he was shot and then left on the road like a deer,” Tammy Boswell said. “Shannon was a really nice person… and no one has the right to take him away from me.”

Fernandes spoke to a neighbor who had heard the shots. She did not want to show her face on camera.

“One shot and then, a few seconds later, it sounded like a car crash or like someone had driven across the median or something like that. It happened very quickly, very much like what was happening,” she described.

Police are asking anyone who was in the area or knows what happened to Shannon Boswell to come forward.

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