Forney was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised in Brooklyn, by a single mother. Forney admitted to using crack cocaine "because it eased the degradation and fear" from sex work. The killing of Ali Forney occurred on December 5, 1997.
Forney was found by the police shot to death on the sidewalk in front of a housing project on East 131st Street in Harlem. According to The New York Times Forney was the third young transgender sex worker murdered in Harlem in fourteen months.[4] Despite an investigation by the NYPD, Forney's murder has never been solved.
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