Nearly 50-year sentence for man who killed Md. woman he was seeing after learning she was transgender

A Prince George’s County, Maryland, man learned Wednesday he’ll serve nearly 50 years behind bars for murdering a transgender woman. Prosecutors said now-29-year-old DeAllen Price was in an intimate relationship with 20-year-old Taya Ashton when she was killed in July of 2021. Prosecutors said Price spoke during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, telling the court that when he first learned Ashton was not a biological female, he reacted and shot her.

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