Sakia Gunn Stories
By Keith Boykin, in sexuality
Monday, May 12 2003, 1:43PM
Fifteen-year-old Sakia Gunn was murdered in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday, May 11.
After hanging out in New York's Greenwich Village, Sakia and her friends took the Path train to Newark's Penn Station and then walked three blocks to Broad and Market Street. The girls were approached by two men at the Broad and Market Street bus stop, across the street from a police booth.
After the girls revealed that they were gay, the men attacked the girls and then stabbed Sakia. The men fled in a car, leaving Sakia to bleed to death. She died on the way to the hospital.
A Photographic Tour Of Sakia Gunn's Last Hours
Christopher Street Path train entrance
Christopher Street Path train entrance sits next to Chi Chiz bar
Christopher Street Path train station
The final bridge leading to Newark's Penn Station
A map of the area around Penn Station
Newark Penn Station police station
Newark Penn Station police sign
A city bus pulls up at Newark Penn Station
A view of Newark Penn Station from outdoors
Another view of Newark Penn Station from outdoors
Broad and Market Street bus station, where Sakia was killed
Police booth at Broad and Market Street
Abraham Lincoln statue looking down over Market Street
Downtown Newark's unfinished Renaissance Mall on Broad Street
Newark City Hall up close shows boarded up window
Newark City Hall monument to "noble women of our city"
Paint chipped off the ceiling inside the dome of Newark City Hall
From the Web
Oct. 14: A movement grows in Newark
Oct. 10: The Ignored Victims: Many Gay Hate Crime Victims Suffer Brutality and Never Get Noticed
Oct. 9: Sakia’s Corner Awash in Tears and Anger
Oct. 5: Rights group begins where life ended
Sep. 5: Newark Pride Gets Allies
Aug. 20: Homegoing celebration for daughter of Amina and Amiri Baraka
Aug. 14: Lesbian Stabbing in N.J. Fuels Bias Talk
Aug. 9: A young lesbian's stabbing death is far from resolved
June 16: Eulogy for Sakia Gunn, by Alicia Banks
May 22: Gay, lesbian vigil set for today
May 21: Suspect arrested in teen slaying
May 19: Man arrested for lesbian teen's death
May 14: Photos of candlelight vigil
May 12: Newark Girl Fatally Stabbed
From Keithboykin.com