Colo. man convicted of murdering transgender woman, Angie Zapata

[ccharles000]

A man who claimed he snapped before killing a transgender woman was swiftly convicted of first-degree murder and a hate crime Tuesday for savagely beating the woman with a fire extinguisher.

The jury deliberated for just two hours before convicting Allen Andrade, 32, of Thornton. The first-degree murder conviction carries mandatory life without parole, and the conviction on bias-motivated crime carries an extra three years.

The judge set formal sentencing for later Wednesday. It's believed to be the first prosecution under Colorado's bias-crime statute for a crime involving a transgender person.

Prosecutors argued Andrade had known for hours that 18-year-old Angie Zapata was biologically male and beat her to death because he disliked gays.

Andrade's attorney didn't deny that Andrade had killed Zapata but said had just learned Zapata's identity after spending hours with her and lashed out without thinking.

http://pageoneq.com/stories/Zapata_killer_guilty_of_muder_and_hate_crimes_k_0422.html

[angstlessk]

1. good life plus 3 years..his stinking corpse gets to rot in prison 3 years after

his death...very fitting indeed!

[ccharles000]

3. here is a picture of the asshole

[angstlessk]

4. thanks for the pic..now my queston is..why was such a beautiful person with THAT LOSER?

hell...I could not go within 50 feet of someone like that! gangland written all over him..wonder how many tats he has on his head alone?

[NOW tense]

2. Quote from Denver Post

On the tape, Andrade also says he "can't cry over spilled milk. It's done. It's not like I just went up to a schoolteacher and shot her in the head, you know what I mean? It's not like I went up to a law-abiding, straight citizen," he said in the call.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12190718

[baldguy]

5. They try to dehumanize the people they hate; they only succeed in dehumanizing themselves.

[firedupdem]

6. I watched this trial all week on court tv. I'm glad they came back

quickly with a conviction. This guy was a piece of shit and had no remorse for this murder.

[ccharles000]

7. kick

[wordpix]

8. scumbag is too nice a word for this killer

[ccharles000]

10. I agree

[Forkboy]

9. Cya, fucker.