Trans woman Day Rodas found murdered in LA
Day Rodas Day Rodas, a 27-year-old transgender woman who worked for the Los Angeles LGBT Center in the Community Health Center program, was found dead Thursday, Dec.
1, on a Malibu roadside. Police have not given a cause of death but have said her death is being investigated as a homicide.
Rodas is at least the 36th trans person to die violently in 2022. According to her sister, Susie Rodas, on the GoFundMe she started to help pay for funeral and memorial expenses, Day Rodas had only recently come out as transgender.
Susie Rodas said on the fundraising page that her family had gone to police to file a missing person report after Day stopped responding to calls and texts. “Her boss from work called saying she didn’t show up to work, so we knew something was wrong,” Susie Rodas wrote. “She also had moved back in with us, so when she didn’t arrive home for two days.
