Kayla Moore aka Xavier Christopher Moore

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Officers responded to 2116 Allston Way for a mental health evaluation. Moore was uncooperative, struggled with police and stopped breathing while under restraint. Copwatch identified Moore as a transgender woman of color (Kayla Moore) and raised concerns about the death. Coroner later ruled death as a drug overdose, accidental. Fatal Encounters apologizes for the occasional use of birth names for transgender people. Police and news media often report the birth names instead of the real names, so we have to have both in our name field to prevent duplications in the dataset.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Kayla Moore aka Xavier Christopher Moore, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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