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Oxnard, California is a town like many towns across the United States.

Oxnard has its share of institutional racism and gender hate, but no one would have expected one junior high student to murder another in cold blood.

Growing up, transgender, biracial, and in an abusive home, Latisha King had many challenges in life.

At age 15, Latisha was struggling to find herself.

She was

adopted as a female and asking her classmates to stop calling her Larry and begin calling her Latisha.

Latisha was adopted as a toddler boy.

As she reached adolescence, child abuse in her adopted

home resulted in placement in a shelter for abused and neglected

children. But in the shelter she found a very supportive and

accepting environment.

Still at school, she was teased, ostracized, and bullied.

But Latisha was really a strong little thing and self-empowered.

She refused to hide who she was from her classmates.

Of course some of her peers didn't like that. And one of these peers was 14-year-old

branded McInerney.

Brandon was raised in a home where abuse, illegal drugs, and weapons were just commonplace.

Join us at the quiet end for a murder in junior high.

When interactions between Latisha and Brandon resulted in a shocking murder,

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