UPDATE/Agnes Hernandez, Mexican Transgender Activist, Brutally Murdered

[Shana A]

Agnes Hernandez, Mexican Transgender Activist, Brutally Murdered

First Posted: 03/15/2012 1:06 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/agnes-hernandez-hate-crime-mexican-transgender-activist-brutally-murdered_n_1345867.html

Nearly 2000 individuals congregated outside a civic plaza in Puebla, Mexico on Tuesday, demanding justice for slain Mexican transgender activist Agnés Torres Hernández, whose body was found on Friday by neighbors who reported the crime to local police.

Mexican Attorney General is considering the investigation of Torres' murder as a hate crime, according to the newspaper El Universal (in Spanish).

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Torres, a 28 year-old psychologist and educator, is remembered as an activist and ardent defender of human rights in Mexico's LBGT community. She was an important figure in the strive for acceptance for the transgender community in her native country.

[SandraJane]

UPDATED: Arrest made in connection to killing of trans LGBTQ activist



  March 17, 2012


http://xqsimagazine.com/2012/03/17/arrest-made-in-connect-to-killing-of-trans-lgbtq-activist/





UPDATE: In a press conference, the Puebla State Attorney General named the four men arrested in connection with the murder of Agnes. Luis Fernando Bravo, Agustín Flores,  Marco Antonio Especie, and Agnes' most recent partner Jorge Flores have all been charged.

A fifth suspect, believed to be a minor, has not been named.

According to authorities, the motive of the crime was stealing Agnes' car, discarding the notion that the murder was hate-motivated.