Nicole López, 33, was hospitalised on Thursday 8 October after being beaten and stabbed in the latest incident of violence against the trans community on the island.
According to ABC News, López told local police she was attacked after an argument in her home shortly after midnight, but no further details have been released to the public.
López’s friends said her skull was left fractured from the beating and she will be needing facial reconstruction surgery.Michellyn Ramos Vargas was killed days before Nicole Lopez was attackedSix trans Puerto Rican trans people have been killed so far in 2020; López’s attack came only several days after another trans woman, Michellyn Ramos Vargas, was killed in what is suspected to be a hate crime.