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DENVER – The case of a man charged with beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher has gone to the jury.
Prosecutors and the defense made their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of Allen Andrade, who is charged with murder and a bias-motivated crime in the death of 18-year-old Angie Zapata.
Attorneys for the 32-year-old defendant say Zapata deceived him, and that Andrade snapped when he discovered that Zapata was biologically male. But prosecutors say Andrade had known for 36 hours that Zapata was biologically male before he killed her out of a dislike for homosexuals.
The trial is believed to be the first under Colorado’s bias-motivated crime law involving a transgender person.
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