Murder of 23-year-old in Lumberton draws national attention
LUMBER BRIDGE — Nine days ago, the body of 23-year-old Avery Juwan Scurlock was found shortly after midnight in a field just outside Lumberton.Scurlock had been shot multiple times and had been “left to die,” Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said in a news release.The murder has drawn national attention from the LGBTQ community, which has reported Scurlock’s death as the latest in a troubling trend of transgender black women homicides across the country. […]
