Memorial ad for murdered transgender woman vexes DA

DenverPost.com – By Monte Whaley – The Denver Post

Prosecutors are worried that jury selection in next week’s trial of a man accused of killing a transgender woman in Greeley in July has become a lot more complicated.

That’s because 50 groups sponsored a full-page ad in 22 Colorado newspapers and purchased online advertising to commemorate the life and death of 18-year-old Angie Zapata. The ad ran Wednesday in newspapers ranging from the Westminster Window and Durango Herald to the Gazette in Colorado Springs. It did not appear in the Fort Collins Coloradoan or the Greeley Tribune.