
Monday, November 17, 2008 at 6:25 p.m.
SYRACUSE -- Outside of a Seymour Street home in Syracuse, friends of Moses "Teish" Cannon have started a memorial to remember their friend who was shot to death on Friday.
Police say Cannon's sexual orientation was the motive; he was born male but lived as a transgender woman.
"People believe, because RuPaul is famous, that transgendered people are no longer experiencing discrimination and that's just not true and this is an example of that," said Elizabethe Payne who started the Q Center @ ACR, an outreach group for youth.
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Moses "Teish" Cannon.
Family says Moses Cannon was shot because he was gay, and his killing should be treated as a hate crime
by Robert A. Baker / The Post-Standard
Saturday November 15, 2008, 11:22 PM
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