Disabled Michigan man says he was shot with a pellet gun in a transphobic attack
A Michigan transgender man says he was the victim of a transphobic attack with a pellet gun while traveling on the sidewalk in his wheelchair. Andrew Blake-Newton, 30, said he was shot five times Saturday from a car full of people who were taunting him and yelling anti-transgender slurs at him. "No one should have to go through this." Blake-Newton told WDIV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Detroit. "Nobody."The incident happened just after midnight as Blake-Newton was traveling from her home in Pontiac, outside Detroit, to the local gas station to buy a snack, she said. Blake-Newton told WDIV-TV that the…
