Remembering Our Dead

Destiny Howard

Destiny's body was found in a parking lot. She had been shot.

Dec. 9—The body of a [woman] who had been shot to death was found lying in a parking lot Friday morning at a vacant office building in western Bibb County, officials said. The victim, who as of early afternoon had not been identified, was believed to be in [her] late 20s or early 30s, said Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones.

The body was discovered shortly before 9:30 a.m. at 6211 Thomaston Road, the former home of Reaves Software, just west of Price Road and not far from the southern entrance to the Lake Wildwood subdivision. The slain [woman] is the county's 66th homicide victim of 2022.

Sheriff's officials said in a statement that the death "occurred in the parking," which lies down a slight slope from Thomaston Road about a mile due west of Interstate 475. Further details were not immediately available. Jones, the coroner, sought the public's help to identify the dead [woman], who was Black and said to be about 5 feet, 9 inches tall.

The victim weighed 160 pounds, had braided hair and wore a diamond-like earring in his right ear. There were two plastic-bead bracelets on [her] right wrist. [She] had no tattoos.

UPDATE on Dec. 13: The victim, after [her] family confirmed [her] identity on Dec. 12, was identified by sheriff's officials as [deadname] "Destin" Howard, 23, of Macon.

In August 2023 Jaleel Deshawn Parker, 26, was arrested and charged with Destiny's murder.

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/crime/macon-man-arrested-for-allegedly-murdering-transgender-woman-west-bibb-parking-lot/93-0ac1f6f2-9744-43d4-abba-5b6206538f42 archive link

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/27/destiny-howard-unique-banks-trans-murder-us/

https://www.them.us/story/destiny-howard-trans-woman-killed-in-georgia

https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-women-killed-georgia-north-carolina

https://www.hrc.org/news/remembering-destiny-howard-black-transgender-woman-killed-in-macon-georgia

https://georgialawnews.com/remembering-the-fate-of-howard-black-transgender-woman-who-was-killed-in-macon-georgia/

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/crime/coroner-person-found-shot-and-killed-in-macon-parking-lot-identified-3/93-3522db35-1067-4eeb-952f-5b9d6c5a5d90

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/update-man-found-shot-dead-in-parking-lot-at-vacant-office-on-thomaston-road-in-west-macon/ar-AA156Dy2

Report added: 25 Jan 2023. Last updated: 9 Nov 2023

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