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April 25, 2024 24 mins

Just 15 years old, Sakia, a black lesbian had just returned to her home city of Newark, NJ from Greenwich Village, New York. Her and 4 of her female friends, all teenagers had hopped a bus, enjoyed their time and were waiting in Newark for a connecting bus to their homes. Two grown men up to no good, drove up to the group of girls at the bus stop and started making lewd remarks. When the men were told the girls were all lesbians, they got out of their car and physically harrassed the girls, murdering Sakia. True Crime Quickie is from Toronto Canada, the murder of DJ/VJ Peter Blue.


Updates for Deandre Matthews and Ray Hanish cases.


Promo: Missing Magnolias

Intro music: Black Moons by the 126ers

Outro music: Subtle Betrayal by SYBS


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Resources:

https://www.advocate.com/crime/men-arrested-killing-gay-teen

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-arrest-murder-deandre-matthews-railroad-

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/12/28/charged-kentland-torture-murder-garett-kirts-tied-another-death-white-county/2751581001/tracks-20230511-c36743y3xrc2jj7zz2hdormzvq-story.html

https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/this-one-girls-story/

https://outinjersey.net/lgbtq-history-the-murder-of-sakia-gunn-was-20-years-ago-today/

https://www.logotv.com/news/pqg98p/sakia-gunn-queer-black-intersectionality

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10538720802161581

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sakiagunnfilmproject?autoplay=1

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sakia-gunn/id1471757305?i=1000480872529

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTnKaunTBqc

https://www.newarklgbtqcenter.org/about-us

https://www.advocate.com/news/2003/05/17/suspected-killer-lesbian-teen-turns-himself-8678

https://murdervillage.com/2020/05/14/smoke-and-sorrow/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peter-elie-homicide-investigation-victim-remembered-1.5572645

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/second-degree-murder-charge-laid-in-death-of-dj-in-midtown-apartment-1.4942445

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