Mia died by suicide. She was studying at the city's Teachers Training College, and iInvestigations are focusing on whether she had been bullied and her home environment.
Police and the courts are investigating the causes that led a young transgender student to take her own life on the banks of the Paraná River in the city of Bella Vista. A neighbor discovered her body hanging from a tree, with the unusual feature still being her uniform from the city's Teachers' College. They are trying to determine whether the young woman had been suffering bullying because of her gender, or if a family problem was the trigger, as her relatives did not claim the body, which had been in the morgue for more than 12 hours.
At around 12:20 a.m. yesterday, a resident of Citricultores Avenue, in the southern part of the city, almost adjacent to the Paraná River, alerted the Second Police Station of the gruesome discovery. The man described how he had come across the body of a young person "[suicide method redacted]" at a height of two meters.
When the police commission arrived at the scene, they confirmed the incident and notified prosecutor Ramón Alfredo Muth, who minutes later summoned experts and forensic doctors to begin gathering information about what had happened.
Fernández also highlighted the fact that the victim was still wearing the Bella Vista Teacher Training School uniform, which she wore at night, and it was there that investigators began investigating her final hours.
Yesterday, it was also confirmed that the victim is a young transgender woman, identified as Mía Zurí Gutiérrez Ramírez, 20, who, according to sources consulted by the newspaper Época, had some family problems due to her condition.
After the autopsy, the body was taken to the Bella Vista Hospital morgue, but nearly 12 hours passed before family members claimed it. This happened after the police contacted them based on information they had gathered throughout the morning. The investigation was handed over to the local prosecutor's office in a case currently classified as "alleged suicide."
