Director D. Smith mourned Koko as “the latest victim of violence against Black transgender women.”
“Upon arrival, officers located a female victim with an apparent gunshot wound,” authorities said.
Homicide investigators responded to the scene and are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident."
Koko Da Doll at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
I wanted to create images that didn’t show the trauma or the statistics of murder of Transgender lives.
I wanted to create something fresh and inspiring.
But here we are again.
To show how beautiful and full of life she was.
She will inspire generations to come and will never be forgotten."
It marks the directing debut of Smith, a Grammy-nominated producer, singer, and songwriter.
We can do anything.
We can be music artists, we can be actors, we can be whatever we want to be.
