Koko Da Doll, a Black transgender girl featured within the hit 2023 Sundance Movie Competition documentary “Kokomo Metropolis,” has died, the pageant introduced Thursday.
Koko, often known as Rasheeda Williams, wasreportedly fatally shot in Atlanta on Tuesday.
“We're saddened to listen to in regards to the loss of life of Rasheeda Williams aka Koko Da Doll,” the pageant wrote. “We have been honored to have her on the Competition this 12 months with KOKOMO CITY, the place she reminded Black trans girls, ‘we will do something, we will be no matter we need to be.’ It's a tragic loss.”
The Atlanta Police Division reported an April 18 taking pictures was amongst three slayings involving transgender girls this 12 months, however didn't title her within the tweet. Cops wrote they discovered a “particular person shot” at a Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW location, the place she was pronounced useless on the scene.
Daniella Carter, who additionally seems within the movie, confirmed Koko’s loss of life on Instagram.
“The Atlanta Police Division is actively investigating three violent crimes involving transgender girls this 12 months,” the division stated in the identical tweet. “Whereas these particular person incidents are unrelated, we're very conscious of the epidemic-level violence black and brown transgender girls face in America.”
A police spokesperson didn’t instantly return HuffPost’s request for an replace on the investigation.
Koko figured prominently in “Kokomo Metropolis,” which targeted on her challenges together with different Black trans intercourse employees.
HuffPost’s Candice Frederick wrote that the documentary is “a kind of freewheeling, provocative conversations that you just don’t usually see in movie at present.”
The movie, directed by D. Smith, gained the Viewers and NEXT Innovator awardsat Sundance, and captured the Panorama Viewers Award on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition.
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