3 weeks after Chicago woman disappeared in Bahamas, loved ones criticize investigators

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Family and friends gathered outside Chicago City Hall on Thursday to call for more help from local and federal officials in the effort to locate Taylor Casey, who went missing in the Bahamas last month.

A lot of tears were shed at Thursday’s press conference this morning, especially from Casey’s mother Colette Seymour, who shared a letter she wrote for her daughter on her 42nd birthday.

“The pain I felt 42 years ago while birthing you doesn't compare to the pain I feel today, with you missing out of our lives,” Seymour said.

Casey went missing about three weeks ago while on a yoga retreat in Nassau, Bahamas.

Since then, her mother, her friends and LGBTQ+ advocates have accused the Royal Bahamas Police Force, as well as state and federal officials, for not taking Casey’s disappearance seriously because she’s a Black transgender woman.

Channyn Lynne Parker, with LGBTQ+ center Brace Space Alliance, said this sends a message that Black trans women do not matter.

“We’re here to say right now — emphatically, resoundingly and loudly — that we reject that,” Lynne Parker said. “Black women matter.”

Friends and family said they will not stop pushing for answers. They were told they're supposed to hear from Bahamas police with an update by Friday.

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