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Disabled transgender man is shot five times with a pellet gun in a drive-by transphobic attack

A transgender man in Michigan says he was the victim of a transphobic attack in which he was shot in a pellet-gun attack while traveling along the sidewalk in a wheelchair.

Andrew Blake-Newton, 30, said he was shot five times over the weekend from a car full of people who mocked the disabled man and yelled anti-transgender slurs before laughing as they drove away.

Blake-Newton told a local NBC affiliate: ‘No one should have to go through this. No one.’ Read the full story here ▶