Suspects Yelled “Tra*ny Fag**t” Slur Before Shooting Pellet Gun At Trans Man In Wheelchair

A transgender man says he was attacked with a pellet gun while traveling along the sidewalk in his wheelchair in Pontiac, Michigan.

Andrew Blake-Newton, 30, said he was shot five times Saturday from a car full of people who were mocking him and yelling anti-transgender slurs.

“They drove away shouting ‘t****y f****t’ at me while they laughed,” Blake-Newton wrote on Facebook.

“No one should have to go through this,” Blake-Newton, who has multiple sclerosis, told NBC affiliate WDIV of Detroit. “No one.”

The incident occurred just after midnight while Blake-Newton was traveling from his home to the local gas station to buy a snack, he said.

Blake-Newton told WDIV-TV that the people who shot him were in a small tan sedan and laughed at him as they

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