Angie Zapata was an 18-year old Latina transgender woman who was found murdered in her home in Colorado. Allen Ray Andrade is being charged with her murder. Find more Angie Zapata news and information here.
There’s been a lot of news regarding Latinos and gays lately. But what can we glean from it all? Let’s take a look back and see what we get.
Exhibit A- The Burger King Texican Whopper International Incident
In Mexico, you basically live with your parents until you get married, so the cowboy-luchador “roommate” concept in this Burger King campaign from Spain did not fly with the Mexican government . The ambassador to Spain himself got involved. Sure, he said it was about the flag, but... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
This post was written by geekgirl on April 23, 2009
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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... 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... 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
You were probably under the impression that Allen Andrade was kind of a bad dude for having brutally murdered Angie Zapata , a 20-year-old transwoman with whom he’d been on a date, in her apartment with a fire extinguisher. Maybe you were disgusted at him for not only showing no remorse for his crime, but for repeatedly referring to Angie as “it.” But, seriously, who are you to judge? Only God can do that. And a jury of his peers. And a judge. But mostly God. We know this because Andrade... Read Full Story
Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata but lived as a young woman. The trial of Allan Ray Andrade begins today, accused of killing transgendered teen Angie Zapata . According to prosecutors, Zapata and Andrade engaged in consensual sexual acts together. When Andrade found out that Zapata had been born a man, he killed Zapata. From ABC News: Police say Allen Ray Andrade, 32, snapped when he learned that 18-year-old Angie Zapata, who was born Justin Zapata but lived as a young woman, was... Read Full Story
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/10441/voices-from-the-angie-zapata-family-vigil http://pam/shouseblend.com - http://twitter/justiceforangie - Autumn Sandeen took a video at the April 14, 2009 Angie Zapata Family Vigil, asking people what motivated them to attend the event..."Why Did you come to the vigil? Autumn Sandeen is a new media reporter (frontpage blogging Barista) for Pam's House Blend. She's tweeting (microblogging) the trial on twitter under the twitterID of JusticeForAngie... Read Full Story
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Allen Ray Andrade, who was the man who murdered 18-year-old Angie Zapata, has just been convicted by the Court of law. He was found guilty on the two main charges imposed against him and they are first-degree murder and bias-motivated crime or hate crime. Likewise, he was also found guilty on the significantly lesser charges of vehicle theft and identity... Read Full Story
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