Ten years later,
Araujo's murder resonates
Published 10/04/2012
by Seth Hemmelgarn and Cynthia Laird
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68114Ten years ago this week, Gwen Araujo went to a house party in Newark and never came home.
Araujo was 17 on October 3, 2002, when she was killed. Two of the men had reportedly had sex with the young woman they had known as Lida, and they murdered her after their suspicions that she was biologically male were confirmed. Two other young men were also involved in the killing.
Her last words before being beaten were, "Please don't, I have a family."
Afterward, Araujo's killers drove her body to a grave in the Sierra foothills.
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Remembering Slain Transgender Teen Gwen Araujo
Ten years after a transgendered teen was killed in Newark, family and friends remember her life.
By Nika Megino
October 3, 2012
http://newark.patch.com/articles/remembering-slain-transgender-teen-gwen-araujoEvery year in October, Sylvia Guerrero stays up, remembering nights when she would wait up for her 17-year-old to come home.
But tonight marks 10 years since Guerrero last saw her second oldest child alive.
Gwen Araujo – born Edward "Eddie" Araujo – was a pre-operative transgender teenager who was born as a boy and lived life as a girl since the age of 14. Her name was legally changed to Gwen Amber Rose Araujo two years after her death.
