Remembering Our Dead

Aretha "ReRe" Scott (Franklin Freeman)

Aretha bled to death after being shot in the leg.

Five months before her death, she had been picked up by an off-duty vice officer, who fired his service pistol twice during an argument over money. The officer quit during an internal investigation. Another officer was fired, and two other officers were suspended.

She was killed five days before she was to be a witness in a hearing about one of the suspensions. Very little has been done since then to apprehend her murderer.

The Charlotte Observer. June 30, 2002

https://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2014/06/20/question-the-queen-city-the-unsolved-death-of-a-drag-diva

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-murder-of-transge/7256343

http://students673.ucr.edu/docsserver/lgbt/trans_remembrance_display_posters.pdf

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Report added: 21 Sep 2025. Last updated: 3 Apr 2026

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