No way out
"What it all comes down to is abusers of all stripes, no matter what kind of relationship, are going to use what they have available to manipulate, coerce, and entrap victims to make them feel like they have no other options but to be with them," Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz, a professor of sociology at Framingham State University who studies transgender intimate-partner violence, told Insider.
Her parents sought counseling for her, but Berrios continued to stumble through her teenage years. Judy and Marlon Berrios finally sent her to a trade school, Oneonta Job Corps, at 16, where she not only picked up skills but embarked on her transition. After that, Berrios bounced between minimum-wage jobs at Dunkin', Subway, and Piercing Pagoda, bringing in much of her income from dates with men, according to several of her friends. Sometimes she stayed with friends; other times she was homeless. In one of their last conversations, Judy Berrios recalled telling her daughter,"Your life sounds exhausting to me.
But McMahon had known Davis for years and recalled with disgust how violently he treated his girlfriends, including one of her cousins. She said Davis had beaten and choked women in public. Davis had also boasted of committing a 2008 arson in Ithaca that killed another young woman, 29-year-old Michelle Morey, according to police documents. Morey had been found dead of smoke inhalation, inside a room that went up in flames.
Michael Davis' attorney, James Baker, argued for leniency at sentencing, raising Davis' own history of abuse.During the times Berrios tried to leave, Davis would stalk her and scare her into returning, McMahon said. In fact, McMahon told the police, Davis had threatened Berrios' life at least three times. Davis ultimately worked to isolate Berrios from everyone close to her.
The police arrested Davis the same day Berrios' body was discovered. Though he denied killing her, the evidence was overwhelming. Authorities found a duffel bag at the scene containing a lighter; surveillance footage showed Davis arriving earlier that day with the duffel bag and then leaving without it after the murder.
But"all of those things are way harder when you are an LGBTQ survivor," Shugrue dos Santos said."And become even disproportionately more difficult when you are a trans survivor." Systemic transphobia"sends a signal to trans survivors that they're not as valued," said Adam Messinger, an associate professor of justice studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern Illinois University who studies intimate-partner violence involving transgender people."It sends a signal to potential supporters, friends and family, that this person is not as worth helping or as valued as a human," he said.
Of the 39 intimate killings Insider analyzed, three defendants were acquitted; in three other cases, prosecutors declined to prosecute the suspects or dropped charges against them. So when Desmond Harris, 19, agreed to be her"official" boyfriend on June 7, 2017, her joy, on social media at least, was incandescent.Facebook photo obtained by the Alexandria Police Department
By July, McGlory had moved out of a mobile home and into a duplex with Kenyetta Ford. Harris joined her there shortly after. Ford would later tell detectives she had witnessed McGlory and Harris fighting while they lived with her and saw Harris hit McGlory at least once. In the early afternoon on August 1, Harris posted"Happy national girlfriend day my Queen" to Facebook and tagged McGlory. She replied:"My king. So love u boy." Two hours later, McGlory's relentlessly positive Facebook posts began to crack."Lord Why I'm always getting in a abuse relationship," she posted.
Yet Alexandria police misnamed and misgendered McGlory from the moment they first arrived on the scene, and the detectives who investigated the case followed their lead. Even when the victim is identified as transgender, Goodmark told Insider, anti-trans bias may prejudice investigators against approaching a killing as a case of intimate-partner violence."The assumption is, oh, they must have been a sex worker," Goodmark said,"because trans people don't have intimate relationships in which this could possibly happen."
In the September 2019 trial, the state leaned heavily on the testimony of Brandon Clark, who was being held at Rapides Parish Jail while Harris was there awaiting trial. According to Clark's witness statement, Harris told Clark that he had been using McGlory for money and had shot her when she"started wanting sex in return."
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