Mya Hall aka Ricky Shawatza Hall

How they died

Deadly force

Officers reported that Mya Hall was driving with another person toward a restricted access gate the National Security Administration, and when she disobeyed orders to leave and sped toward a police cruiser, she was shot to death. Hall was a transgender woman who was born Ricky. 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. It's disrespectful, and we're sorry about the necessity. Police alleged vehicular assault.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Mya Hall aka Ricky Shawatza Hall, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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