A transgender woman allegedly shot and killed their parents Tuesday in Washington, Utah, according to a report.
Mia Bailey, a 28-year-old biological man who identifies as a woman, was arrested not far from the crime scene after an hours-long manhunt that ran into the following day.
Joseph and Gail Bailey, ages 70 and 69, respectively, were found shot and killed, according to the New York Post. Their bodies were discovered in the living room of their house in the 1000 block of East Chinook Drive, according to the Washington City Police Department.
“We have some good news,” Officer Tiffany Mitchell of the neighboring St. George Police Department said in an update posted on Facebook Live. “We have the suspect in custody. Everyone is safe. No one else was injured. So the stay-at-home order that had been put in place has been lifted.”
Police found the suspected shooter roughly 7 miles from the crime scene. Bailey can be seen in a video surrendering to a dozen armed officers.
The police department has yet to confirm the parental relationship between the shooter and the victims. This information stems from a social media post allegedly written by Gail’s brother, Mike Mitchell, as reported by the Daily Mail.
“My sister Gail and her husband Blue Bailey were shot dead tonight. I’m numb,” he wrote. “Their own son killed them. My poor mother has lost 3 of her 5 children. You always think it only happens to someone else. Give your brother or sister a call. Stay in touch.”
Bailey is not the first transgender or nonbinary shooter in recent years, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old biological woman who identified as a man named “Aiden,” shot and killed six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, last year.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, a biological man who identified as nonbinary, shot and killed five people in 2022 at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Maya McKinney, a biological woman who identified as a man named “Alec,” killed one person and injured another eight in a shooting at a Denver area charter school in 2019.
Snochia Moseley, a biological woman who identified as a man, killed three people in 2018 outside a Rite Aid warehouse in Maryland.
Anthony Zenkus, a Columbia School of Social Work professor, responded to criticism of this trend last year when noting that shootings from transgender people still appear to be a small minority.
“4 shooters out of over 300 mass shooters since 2009 are transgender or non binary,” he tweeted. “That’s just 1.3% of all shooters. You just proved our point: 99% of mass shooters in the United States are cis gendered.”
An estimated 0.5% of the U.S. adult population is transgender, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
