The Desert Review reports. The police department has released few details, but members of Cazares’s family said she had been stabbed and set on fire.“I believe it was a hate crime because [she] was stabbed and [she] was burned, and, you know, that’s so hateful to do to somebody,” the victim’s sister Aubrey Cazares told The Desert Review.Police officers have not yet concluded that Cazares’s death was a hate crime, however. “This is just the early part of the investigative process, so we’re just investigating as a homicide right now,” Commander Brett Houser said in a press release. “We haven’t established motive or anything of that nature yet.”Cazares was from Westmorland, located like Brawley in California’s Imperial Valley, in the.