Follow up to yesterday's postPolice are considering the death a homicide, Sergeant Steve Mannina in the San Francisco Police Department's public affairs office told the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday, March 20. He was unable to confirm that the cause of death was due to strangulation, and said the department was awaiting a report from the medical examiner's office. Tina D'Elia, hate violence survivor program director of Community United Against Violence who has been working with police, said she had heard from authorities that the woman was strangled.
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There have been several unsolved transgender murder cases since 2004. D'Elia told the B.A.R. that only one case, that of Dahlia Sandoval, who was found dead in Antioch, California in November 2006, was closed after the suspect confessed.
The most recent suspicious death is Daxi Arredondo, who was found dead at the Tenderloin Comfort Inn in November 2006. Martha Arredondo, the mother of the victim, was upset with how the SFPD and the medical examiner's office handled her daughter's death, as reported in the B.A.R. in February.
