Continuing with Pride Month, today we cover the murder of Vancouver Transgender woman Tracey Tom in 2003 in the Downtown East Side.

We also discuss Tracey's murderer, their complicated criminal history and where they are now.

xo

-K&O

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Murder of Shelby Tracy Tom - Wikipedia

Was Shelby Tom's Death a Hate Crime? | The Tyee

Convicted Killer Walks Away From Half-way House | Vancouver Sun

Oldtown News: SHELBY TRACY TOM'S KILLER SENTENCED (downtowneastside.blogspot.com)

Lower Mainland Violent Deaths 2003 (primetimecrime.com)

Former convicted killer jailed indefinitely for sex assault of teen | Vancouver Sun

Vancouver police issue warning about dangerous sex offender | Vancouver Sun

High-risk sex offender Jatin Patel to reside in Vancouver | Indo-Canadian Voice (voiceonline.com)

Downtown Eastside - Wikipedia

Safe injection site and needle exchange | City of Vancouver

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Pop-up safe injection site opens in Vancouver Downtown Eastside | Globalnews.ca

RHHA: Who we are (halfwayhouses.ca)

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Man convicted of pinching girl's bottom in Surrey Safeway loses second appeal – Surrey Now-Leader (surreynowleader.com)

B.C. appeal court the first to give my client a second chance ⋆ LegalMattersCanada

Surrey criminal's dangerous offender designation set aside by appeal court – Cloverdale Reporter

2020 BCCA 92 R. v. Patel (bccourts.ca)

High-risk sex offender Jatin Patel to reside in Vancouver | Indo-Canadian Voice (voiceonline.com)+