Colorado transgender panic killing to be tried as hate crime

PageOneQ.com – by Nick Langewis

A 32-year-old man has confessed to the killing of 18-year-old transgender woman Angie Zapata, née Justin, after being arrested about 50 miles away from the murder scene.

Police in Thornton, Colorado arrested Allen Ray Andrade in his neighborhood after responding to a noise complaint early Wednesday morning and finding him in Zapata’s stolen car… Andrade now faces charges of first-degree murder as a hate crime, identity theft and aggravated motor vehicle theft, and is being held without bond. It will be the first murder in Weld County to be prosecuted as a hate crime.