KTRK reports.Aguillon met the woman, whose name has not been released, on a dating app. At her apartment in southwest Houston, the morning of May 7, she told him she was transgender after they had engaged in sexual activity.
He then shot her in the chest, according to court documents obtained by local media.The two had a “verbal exchange” after she revealed her identity to him, but Aguillon’s attorney Val Zuniga says there was also a physical altercation and that his client shot the woman in self-defense.The woman told KTRK reporter Briana Conner there was no physical altercation and that what happened to her was a hate crime, motivated by her identity.