SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Activists said Thursday that the two bodies found inside a charred car in southeast Puerto Rico were of transgender women, marking four such deaths in the past two months.
The women were identified as 21-year-old Layla Peláez and 32-year-old Serena Angelique Velázquez, according to the Broad Committee for the Search for Equity. “They are hunting us,” Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesman for the group, said in a phone interview.