Warning: This story has details of violence against a trans person and might be distressing to some readers. Twenty-seven-year-old David Bogdanov had contacted Kuhnhausen though Snapchat and the pair had arranged to meet up for a “sexual encounter”.
Bogdanov later went on to claim in police interviews to being “really, really, disturbed” when he learned Kuhnhausen was trans.Bogdanov who was 25 at the time, claimed that Kuhnhausen had reached for her gun, forcing him to a wrap a phone charger around her shoulders to pull her away.