2007
Roberto González Onrubia died on 1 September in Madrid, Spain, from a beating he received on 29 August. This was the culmination of a nine-month period during which Dolores de los Reyes Navarro and Ainhoa Nogales Bergantiños made him a prisoner in his own home and inflicted torture, including physical abuse and sexual humiliation, on him. The two women were found guilty in 2010.
Ruby Ordenana was a transgender sex worker who was found dead on 16 March. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled to death. Police believe that DNA evidence shows that her murderer is a man who raped and assaulted two other transgender people.
Erika Keels (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 3/22/07) Erika, a 20-year-old black transgender woman, was murdered on 22 March 2007, on North Broad Street in Philadelphia. Witnesses saw an assailant eject Erika from her car and intentionally run her over four times, killing her and leaving the scene. A medical examiner’s report supports these eyewitness accounts. But police ruled Erika’s death an accident and have refused to conduct an investigation. The driver, Roland Button, was later apprehended, but he has yet to face criminal charges–including “hit and run” charges. When Ms. Keels’ friends, who are themselves trans, questioned police officials about the classification of her death as an accident, they were asked to disclose their “birth” names and told they were “trying to make something out of nothing.”
Dana A. Larkin, 26, was a black trans woman who was murdered while working as a prostitute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Read more about this topic: List Of Unlawfully Killed Transgender People