Ashley Hallstrom, a
26-year-old transgender woman from Logan, Utah, Ashley Hallstrom posted
a plea on
Facebook on Wednesday, October 14, calling for people to help change the
stigma
surrounding transgender communities. She then took her own life by
stepping into the path of an oncoming dump truck on a highway. Logan,
Utah police said they believe that the act was intentional.
"According to witnesses and information that we gathered on the scene,
it
appears that the pedestrian had jumped in front of that northbound
vehicle," Capt. Tyson Budge said in a statement. "Evidence at the scene
gave every indication that the driver had attempted to swerve and brake,
to avoid the collision but was unable to do so" Budge added.
See the suicide note Hallstrom wrote on her Facebook wall before killing herself, after the cut...