The gunman who shot a transgender woman in Detroit in November was sentenced Tuesday to 32 to 50 years in prison. The woman, known as Chocolate to her friends, was walking when three men in a car demanded at gunpoint that she drop her things. She gave up her belongings, but the gunman, Charles Brown, 21, shot her four times as she fled. The shooting took place on the eve of the 2017 Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honor transgender lives lost to hate crimes. Chocolate survived the shooting and testified from a wheelchair at the trial.
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