{"id":28493,"date":"2016-12-21T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28493"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:16:43","slug":"mississippi-man-guilty-of-murdering-transgender-victim-a-gang-related-hate-crime-news-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28493","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Man Guilty of Murdering Transgender Victim, a Gang-Related Hate Crime (News Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>MISSISSIPPI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28497 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mercedes-Williamson-and-Josh-Brandon-Vallum-x400-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mercedes-williamson-and-josh-brandon-vallum-x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mercedes-Williamson-and-Josh-Brandon-Vallum-x400-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mercedes-Williamson-and-Josh-Brandon-Vallum-x400-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mercedes-Williamson-and-Josh-Brandon-Vallum-x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercedes Williamson, born Michael Wilkins, was 17 years old and resided in Alabama at the time of her death. Mug Shot Photo of Joshua Brandon Vallum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In federal court Wednesday,<strong> Joshua Brandon Vallum<\/strong>, 29, of Lucedale, Mississippi, plead guilty to a federal hate crime for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman, according to federal officials. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Williamson, born Michael Wilkins, was 17 years old and resided in Alabama at the time of her death.\u00a0 Vallum was charged with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is the first case prosecuted under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe defendant committed a horrific and reprehensible act of violence against the victim because of her gender identity,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Gregory Davis.\u00a0 \u201cThis type of attack threatens the harmony of our diverse community and undermines America\u2019s principle of equality under the law.\u00a0 The U. 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Attorney\u2019s Office is committed to continuing its work, in conjunction with the DOJ Civil Rights Division, to ensure that the federal laws prohibiting violations of civil rights will be aggressively prosecuted in the Southern District of Mississippi.\u00a0 I commend our law enforcement partners, including the FBI, George County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Office of the District Attorney for the 19th Judicial District, who worked tirelessly in this case to ensure that justice was done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHate crime has no place in our society, especially by those targeting victims solely for their sexual orientation or identity,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze of the FBI\u2019s Jackson Division.\u00a0 \u201cThis guilty plea will go towards demonstrating hate crime will not be tolerated in the United States. \u00a0The FBI will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to vigorously investigate hate crimes and bring those to justice who violate the civil rights of our citizens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to admissions made as part of his guilty plea:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the late spring or early summer of 2014, Vallum, a member of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation, began a consensual sexual relationship with Williamson.\u00a0 Vallum knew at the time that Williamson was a biological male who identified and presented as a female.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During his romantic relationship with Williamson, Vallum kept the sexual nature of the relationship, as well as Williamson\u2019s biological gender, secret from his family, friends and other members of the Latin Kings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Around August or September 2014, Vallum terminated his romantic and sexual relationship with Williamson and had no contact with her until May 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> On May 28, 2015, Vallum decided to kill Williamson after learning that a friend had discovered Williamson was transgender.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vallum believed he would be in danger if other Latin Kings members discovered that he had engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with a transgender woman, as the Latin Kings Manifesto Constitution expressly prohibits involvement in homosexual activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On May 29, 2015, Vallum went to Alabama to find Williamson, planning to take Williamson to Mississippi and kill her there.\u00a0 After locating Williamson at her residence, he used false pretenses to lure Williamson into his car so he could drive her to Mississippi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vallum drove Williamson to his father\u2019s residence in Lucedale, Mississippi, where he parked his vehicle behind the house.\u00a0 As Williamson sat in the vehicle\u2019s passenger seat, he assaulted her.\u00a0 After using a stun gun to electrically shock Williamson in the chest, Vallum repeatedly stabbed Williamson with a 75th Ranger Regiment pocket knife.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As Vallum stabbed Williamson, Williamson fled from the vehicle.\u00a0 He chased Williamson and stabbed her again multiple times.\u00a0 Vallum delivered what he believed to be a fatal stab to Williamson\u2019s head, as he thought he \u201chit brain\u201d with a blow from the pocket knife.\u00a0 Williamson briefly got back up but again fell to the ground.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vallum went back to his vehicle to attend to a cut on his thumb that he inadvertently inflicted with his own knife during the attack.\u00a0 At that time, Williamson got up again and stumbled farther into the woods.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vallum retrieved a hammer from the trunk of his vehicle and chased after Williamson.\u00a0 He caught up with Williamson and hit her on the back of the head with the hammer.\u00a0 Williamson fell to the ground and Vallum used the hammer to hit her in the head several more times until Williamson died.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After the murder, Vallum attempted to dispose of the murder weapons and other evidence linking him to the crime.\u00a0 He also falsely claimed to law enforcement that he killed Williamson in a panic after discovering Williamson was transgender.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In pleading guilty today, Vallum acknowledged that he had previously lied about the circumstances surrounding Williamson\u2019s death and that he would not have killed Williamson if she was not transgender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. accepted Vallum\u2019s plea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">By all accounts , prosecutors said, Williamson was a good person who was loving and kind and lived her life openly as a transgender girl, according to the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article89109952.html\">Sun Herald.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Sun Herald stated that her grandmother and uncle attended Tuesday\u2019s court hearing, but did not wish to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Prosecutors said Williamson had lived her life as a boy until she was 14 and became her true identity as Mercedes, the Sun Herald report stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vallum had broken up with Williamson about eight months before he called her and told he was going to pick her up and they were going to go somewhere to have sex, the news report 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