Ahmed Was Hit on the Head With a Lamp or Other Blunt Object Between 13 and 15 Times While He Was Sleeping

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According to court records, Ahmed was hit on the head with a lamp or other blunt object between 13 and 15 times while he was sleeping. When they arrived at the scene, police noted that Ahmed's cell phone was missing along with his car. Police followed information from Ahmed's stolen cell phone. They were able to track down his stolen car. Eventually, they located a suspect. A man named Rodriguez Rashad Reed. He said that Ahmed had attempted to sexually assault him. And he says that he was defending himself from this sexual assault. That's what led him to kill Ahmed.

In 1995, two men filmed an episode of the daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed he’d committed the murder “in a panic that he was being falsely accused or identified as a gay person.”

We speak with Cynthia Lee, Carsten Andresen, and Paul Howard about so-called “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses, and we discuss the murders of Scott Amedure, Islan Nettles, Larry King, Ahmed Dabarran, and Matthew Shepard.

Thanks to Thomas Curry, who helped co-produce this episode.

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