Nina Pop – Photo: Facebook A transgender woman who was stabbed to death in Missouri appears to be the tenth transgender or gender-nonconforming person killed in the United States this year.
Nina Pop, a 28-year-old employee at a fast food restaurant, was stabbed to death in Sikeston, Missouri on Sunday night. Officers with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety found Pop’s body Sunday night around 9 p.m.
after receiving a call about an unresponsive person at an apartment at 600 S. New Madrid Street. Officers say it appears Pop was assaulted, and died from injuries sustained in the attack, reports the Cape Girardeau-based CBS affiliate KFVS.
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