An 18-year-old high school student was allegedly so upset after finding out a woman he went home with was transgender that he killed her, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Even after shooting Selena Reyes-Hernandez twice, Orlando Perez told detectives he went back to her Marquette Park home a second time so he could shoot her again, Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday.
Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office identified Reyes-Hernandez as Ramiro Reyes-Hernandez, but prosecutors said she preferred to go by the first name of Selena.
Police said Perez shot the victim multiple times in the back and head inside of her home in the 3300 block of West 71st. Street.
Perez was arrested about 3:15 p.m. Sunday at his in the 3300 block of West 72nd Street, police said. He faces a charge of first-degree murder.
Perez has no other criminal record and has had summer jobs at a factory in Chicago that makes jelly, the assistant public defender said.
Judge Arthur Wesley Willis ordered Perez held without bail.
Snizl on June 18th, 2020 at 19:13 UTC »
" transgender women are women and that shouldn't be a death sentence."
They are first and foremost people, and that shouldn't be a death sentence. It does not matter where you stand on this, what your opinions on gender are, how many genders you think there are and if you think people are able to chose their gender.
All of that does not matter for this. Whatver your views on trans people are, they still remain people.
JennaLS on June 18th, 2020 at 16:59 UTC »
Imagine screaming out your masculine insecurity so hard you commit to a life sentence
sapphicfilmbuff on June 18th, 2020 at 16:14 UTC »
Anybody know if Illinois is one of the many states that allows the trans panic defense �
This is so so sad.
Edit: several folks have expressed disbelief that this is even a thing. Tell me about it. Here's an article detailing what it is and where it is allowed (apparently not in Illinois thank goodness): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense