Back Gwen Araujo Spanish Gwen Araujo French גוון אראוחו HE Գվեն Արաուհո Armenian Gwen Araujo Italian 그웬 아라우조 Korean ਗੁਐੱਨ ਅਰਾਉਜੋ ਦਾ ਕਤਲ Punjabi Gwen Araujo Romanian Араухо, Гвен Russian Gwen Amber Rose Araujo Albanian
| Murder of Gwen Araujo | |
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 Gwen Araujo | |
| Location | Newark, California, U.S. |
| Date | October 3, 2002 |
Attack type | Murder by strangulation, battery |
| Weapons | Multiple |
| Victim | Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, aged 17 |
| Perpetrators |
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| Motive | Revenge against Araujo for not disclosing she was transgender |
| Verdict | Nabors: Pleaded guilty Cazares, Magidson, Merel:
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| Convictions | Magidson, Merel: Second-degree murder Nabors, Cazares: Voluntary manslaughter |
Gwen Amber Rose Araujo (February 24, 1985 – October 4, 2002)[1] was an American teenager who was murdered in Newark, California, at the age of 17.[2] She was murdered by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender.[1][3] Two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder,[4] but not the requested hate-crime enhancements to the charges. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no-contest to voluntary manslaughter. In at least one of the trials, a "trans panic defense"—an extension of the gay panic defense—was employed.[4][5]
Merel and Magidson were sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 15 years. Merel was granted early parole in 2016, after reportedly showing extensive remorse to Araujo's mother, who supported the decision. Magidson, however, has reportedly never shown remorse and has been denied parole three times since his sentencing.
- ^ a b Marshall, Carolyn (September 13, 2005). "Two Guilty of Murder in Death of a Transgender Teenager". The New York Times. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ^ Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B. (2004). Hate crimes: causes, controls, and controversies. SAGE. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-7619-2814-0. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
- ^ Sam Wollaston (May 27, 2005). "Body politics". The Guardian. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ^ a b Szymanski, Zak (September 15, 2005). "Two murder convictions in Araujo case". Bay Area Reporter. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
- ^ Shelley, Christopher A. (August 2, 2008). Transpeople: repudiation, trauma, healing. University of Toronto Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-8020-9539-8. Retrieved October 9, 2010.