>It's been a year since Dolores Nettles rushed to the hospital
>and listened to her daughter's heart beat for the last time.
>Since then, she has been waiting for the results of an
>investigation into her daughter's death. Police say they're on
>the case, but Nettles is skeptical. "What's taking so long?"
>she asked. "I'm not really understanding what's really going
>on."
>
>Nettles is the mother of Islan, the transgender woman who died
>on Aug. 17, 2013, after a group of men allegedly fought with
>her outside a police precinct in Harlem, a New York City
>neighborhood. The police initially brought assault charges
>against Paris Wilson, who allegedly delivered the blows that
>would eventually kill her. But authorities later dropped the
>charges, saying they intended to pursue the case as a homicide
>investigation.
>*cont*