There’s a unique response to Lucas’ murder – none of the local media outlets covering the crime have used Lucas’ name or any identity. Their focus has been on the murderers. I’ve been doing this for over 13 years and I’ve not encountered this before. Typically, outlets will say “the victim” or “the male victim” or “a local man was killed yesterday.” I’ve certainly encountered a lot of deadnaming and misgendering.
But if you read through the coverage, you’ll see almost no reference to Lucas at all. The outlets mention the suspects first on the run, then captured. No mention of the crime or the victim, not even in broad strokes.
I feel like the article frames this crime in a strange way. It doesn’t sound like it had anything to do with Lucas’ identify, tbqh. I agree that the neighbors are evil, that this is tragic, that Lucas’ name and identity need to be respected, and that here is probably erasure happening here. But this doesn’t sound like a hate crime against Lucas, even if it might have been a hate-related with the intended target (I don’t have enough information to speculate either way). Someone please correct me if I missed something here
His name was Lucas, and they’re erasing his life by ignoring his death. He was a victim, but even at our lowest we cannot be people. We’re political. Our lives are now politics. Our deaths are now an uncomfortable topic. Not relevant outside of a small circle of friends. Certainly not news.
I hate this world.
Rest in peace
An article from the local paper.
A story from the NBC affiliate and follow up. ABC affiliate i do not see anything from the CBS affiliate.
As of the 2020 census, Candy Kitchen had a population of 107.
There’s a unique response to Lucas’ murder – none of the local media outlets covering the crime have used Lucas’ name or any identity.
The reports i posted, other than their local paper were reporting directly after the murder. They likely did not have Lucas’s name yet. The initial article from the local paper said next of kin had not been located so his name was being withheld. Then i would guess the big news stations, which are in Albuquerque, lost interest. I live in a rural community outside Albuquerque and the tv stations there barely report on anything here.
so was the third man trans or did Lucas have prior interaction with the couple?
because the article tries to imply Lucas’ death was due to the couple being opposed to Lucas’ sexual identity but it’s a leap with what the article tells us
among all the other issues America’s gun problem in the hands of morons lacking in rational thinking skills doesn’t really need additional reasons
fucking sad, Lucas seemsed like a caring person and the world is worse for them no longer being alive
It just gives me the vibes of what happened to Johnathan Joss - the King of the Hill actor who was murdered. He was married to a trans men, and they had received homophobic harassment which the cops had refused to do anything about. The murder wasn’t “about” him being married to a trans man, but you can’t separate it.
I wonder if this is a similar situation. Cops do not take trans men seriously.
For those wondering why this is “lesbian” paper - many trans men have connection/ with the lesbian community. We often spend some time identifying as lesbians because if it’s the community we might have come of age in. It’s not something i really identify win, but it’s not that unusual.
Another felon with a gun. I am in complete surprise.
You laugh when Charlie Kirk was killed and expect me to have any empathy for this guy? I want you to imagine half of the unites states laughing and celebrating this guys murder. This is the world YOU have created.
Kirk was a propagandist toadie who spent his time promoting guns, and therefore gunviolence, and he died in the funniest way possible, given the circumstances
This other guy is just some guy livin his life.
You haven’t cared about a single unnecessary death from a school shooting, a power-tripping cop or a Middle Eastern bombing over the past couple decades but now that Charlie Kirk has been shot your apathy is actually a stance. Glad he died for something
Nobody who matters gives a FUCK about Charlie Kirk.
I looked at the article, and then seen it pop up multiple times. I don’t understand what’s especially bad compared to other murders. It sucks they killed someone, but I don’t understand what it has to do with visibility and lesbians.
EDIT : I didn’t read the article properly and there was context in there.
How many people are murdered each year for being straight?
But the article said he intervened in a conflict between two other people, whiched to him getting shot? Or did I read it wrong?
You read it wrong. The article mentions there was a history of transphobic harassment against Lucas by the couple. At some point you’re being willfully ignorant to not connect the obvious dots. Yes, you cite the immediate incident, but you have to be incredibly dense to not see the obvious implications.
Sorry if you’re not trying to be transphobic. But every time a trans person is murdered in a hate crime, there’s at least one chud in the comments going, “actually, how do we know this person was actually killed for being trans?” People will bend over backwards to excuse hate crimes.
According to friends, there has been a history of bigotry by this couple. The third person they were original accosting apparently is allegedly occupying that property with permission and they didn’t like it. I understand this occupied property was not adjacent to theirs.
The mere presence of the people these murderers originally confronted was undesirable. Their presence, their existence was a problem they needed to address with a gun. I have no idea if the property owner gave them permission to be there (I was told yes), but I do know the property wasn’t owned or managed by the Byingtons. Their umbrage over someone they found undesirable making a home suggests that they valued trans folx, including Lucas, through a similar lens.
They could have just zoomed away in the ‘motor vehicle’ referenced in court documents.
When society deems people unwanted or devalued, it is not shocking that some citizens felt entitled to use a gun to enforce their vision of community.
Is it this section cause I have no clue what this is supposed to mean
You read it wrong. The article mentions there was a history of transphobic harassment against Lucas by the couple.
Ah ok, thank you for letting me know.
rest of your post
I skimmed the article, so I missed the additional bits. I’m not aiming to be transphobic.
If we start murdering people for being straight I wonder if more of them would start trying to prove they’re gay? This could be good for us
