Angie Zapata

For the first time in our country, CNN reports that there has been a conviction under s state hate crime law for the murder of a transgender teenager.  Allen Andrade met the teen on a social networking site on the interent.  Adrade’s defense was based on the heat of passion, claiming that once he found out that Justin “Angie” Zapata was a biological male, he lost control. Andrade admitted killing Zapata, but his defense argued that he acted in the heat of passion after discovering that...Read Full Story

This post was written by geekgirl on April 23, 2009 Posted Under: Breaking News , Legal , Lifestyle , Politics , Relationship , Videos Serves his ass right…he deserves to get the death penalty. Allen Andrade has been convicted of first degree murder in the beating death of trans teen Angie Zapata. He got more than he gave 18 year old, Angie Zapata . Today the jury found him guilty without parole. That’s huge for the transgender community. The law must change and start to treat...Read Full Story

I just saw on the Questioning Transphobia website that the Angie Zapata murder trial has already produced a verdict. For details on Angie's case, visit the LGBT Hate Crimes clearinghouse here . Angie Zapata (shown in the picture above) was an 18 year old trans woman who was found brutally murdered in her own apartment in Greeley, Colorado sometime in July last year. The suspect in her killing, Allen Ray Andrade, 31, was put on trial recently and his jury found him guilty on four counts: first...Read Full Story

A Greeley transgender woman was apparently murdered this month because a man she met on the Internet became angry when he discovered she was biologically male. The Weld District Attorney charged Allen Ray Andrade, 32, of Thornton with second-degree murder and aggravated motor vehicle theft Wednesday after Thornton police arrested him on traffic warrants and Greeley police arrested him thereafter on the murder charge. He was picked up while he was in the dead woman's car. The news came as an...Read Full Story

The case of a Colorado man charged with beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher has gone to the jury. Prosecutors and the defense made their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of Allen Andrade, who is charged with murder and a bias-motivated crime in the death of 18-year-old Angie Zapata. Attorneys for the 32-year-old Greeley man say Zapata deceived him, and that Andrade snapped when he discovered that Zapata was biologically male. But prosecutors say Andrade had...Read Full Story