Ányela Ramos Claros
9 Feb 2017
Garzón, Huila (Colombia)
Shot
TDoR list ref: tgeu/9-Feb-2017/Angelo Ramos
Ányela was a professional stylist. She was in her salon when she was shot in the back with a shotgun by a 21 year old man who then fled the premises before being caught by the police.
On February 9, 2017 Ányela Ramos Claros, LGBT activist, was shot in the back with a shotgun. The judge determined that it was a hate crime due to her status as a trans woman.
A judge from the Department of Huila (Colombia) - in the interior of the country - sentenced Davinson Stiven Erazo Sánchez (23) to 20 years in a psychiatric center for the femicide committed against Ányela Ramos Claros, a trans woman who was also an activist for the rights of the LGBT community.
This is the first conviction in this nation in which a judge classifies the homicide of a transsexual woman as feminicide, an aggravating circumstance that was created in 2015 with the law of Rosa Elvira Cely, who was brutally raped and murdered in Bogotá, capital of the South American country.
The organization Colombia Diversa reported that in the case of Ramos the court considered that her murder was “due to prejudice due to the gender identity of the trans woman.”
However, in the process, according to Judge Catalina Manrique, it was shown that Erazo has a mental disorder, specifically schizophrenia, which is added to drug dependence, suicide attempts due to toxic psychosis, paranoid, mystical and religious delirium. For this reason, a psychiatric institution and not a prison was established as a detention center.
http://lavozdelaregion.co/conmocion-garzon-asesinato-miembro-la-comunidad-lgbti/
