Loudoun Times-Mirror reports. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office ruled his death a homicide and initially declined to state the cause of death, but a spokeswoman told the Washington Blade this week that it was a gunshot wound.
Menendez lived in Winchester, about 50 miles from Sterling.“We know it was a homicide, but no one has any idea what his whereabouts were that night or with whom,” a female friend of Menendez’s tweeted, according to the Times-Mirror; the tweet is now unavailable. “He was murdered & we believe it was due to his sexuality.