Another Trans Person Arrested for Killing, One Day After Minneapolis Mass Shooting
Are police in Shrewsbury, Mass. hiding that a trans person was arrested over a shooting homicide the day after the Minneapolis trans mass shooting?
Editor’s note: This report has been updated with more information.
Just one day after the trans mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and school in Minneapolis by Robert “Robin” Westman, another trans-identifying individual has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the U.S.
Snehal Ansh Srivastava, a 26-year-old male who goes by the name “Sasha Shakur” and identifies with “she/her” pronouns, was taken into custody in Shrewsbury, Mass. on Aug. 28, after allegedly shooting and killing a father near Jordan Park. The victim confronted Srivastava over vandalism of public property and had just dropped off his child at a nearby elementary school.
The victim has been identified as 57-year-old Kevin Doherty.
Ngo Comment was able to confirm Srivastava’s real name from records associated with the house where the suspect was arrested. He is an Indian national.
Despite the seriousness of the case, Shrewsbury Police and the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office have so far refused to release the name of the suspect. I contacted the sheriff’s office and left a message.
Srivastava was arrested at his home following the incident. His residence displayed numerous leftist slogans, including “BLM,” “Free Palestine,” “Defund the Police,” and “Stop Cop City.” He surrendered on the street and was taken into custody without incident.
In February 2025, Srivastava posted about difficulties entering sex-segregated spaces as a trans-identified person. In a video, he said:
”Right now I wanna talk about my experience as a trans woman going to the spa,” Srivastava said in the video. In the accompanying text, he wrote:
Using the womens room as a 2 spirit trans woman subjects me to gendered racial harassment and policing as a black woman percieved as a black man. ultimately, if the woman who tries to police me wants to escalate the situation, I could be endangered to police violence which, based on historical context, is a deadly threat to my identity.
On one of his websites where he explains his ideology, he calls for blacks to group together for a revolution against the U.S. He also expressed militant support for Palestinian nationalism.
“The people of Palestine do not deserve to be terrorized off the face of the planet because some fuckhead crackers think it's their divine right to rape & kill,” he wrote. “‘The state of israel’ is a fraudulent Israel and can go right to hell. We should kill them all, save Palestine and be just be done with it.”
He continued: “The protection of Palestine requires the eradication of western based genocidal white supremacy. This will require parallel actions of American warfare to eradicate the enemy at the source of their creation. We must stop all Cop Cities & reclaim them as training grounds for our own warriors.”
This was not Srivastava’s first run-in with law enforcement. In September 2022, Westborough Police arrested him after a brutal, violent attack.
“Officers spoke with witnesses who stated the alleged suspect drove his vehicle toward the victim in an attempt to run him over and then exited his vehicle wielding a machete which he used to cut the victim during the altercation,” the Westborough Police Department released in a press statement at the time. The violent assault case was dismissed last month
Srivastava was charged on Friday with armed assault with intent to murder and carrying a gun without a license. The mainstream media is not reporting that he is trans-identifying. He was ordered held without bail.