A video shared on social media appears to show a transgender woman being fatally shot less than a day after she was reported to police for using a women’s bathroom.
Then, the sound of a gun loading can be heard, followed by at least 10 shots.
Puerto Rican police announced on Tuesday that they had received tips that suggest four teenagers were involved in the crime,Pedro Julio Serrano, a San Juan-based LGBTQ activist, demanded that authorities investigate the slaying as a hate crime. In a statement , Serrano said Alexa was “stalked and hunted” prior to her killing and that a video posted shows that the crime was “a hate crime motivated by intolerance.”that correspond to their gender identity. He also scolded the media for misgendering Alexa: Initial reports had claimed that “a man dressed in a black skirt” had been killed, a description that Serrano equated to the promotion of transphobia.
“We must denounce the hate speech of the fundamentalist groups that have promoted a climate where they prosecute and persecute a trans person for the mere fact of using a bathroom,” Serrano wrote.of Puerto Rico, called attention to Ruiz's death, along with Serrano’s activism. “You can feel the pain of Pedro Julio and of all those who understand that the lives of our TRANS people are worth the same as any other compatriot,” she
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