Trans Women Killed in Houston, Milwaukee
Houston Chronicle reports. She and a man, who has yet to be identified, got out of a car on a city street, and the man shot her in the back.Castro was born in Honduras and spent most of her life in North Carolina.
She moved to Houston a few years ago to be closer to her nieces and nephews, her friend Jorge Luis Lizardo told the Chronicle.They had a strong friendship, he said. “I’m also gay, and she told me that things could be difficult for her as a trans woman.
I told her she had a friend in me, and from there we called each other brother and sister,” Lizardo told the paper.She worked in construction in Houston, and she would always stand up to discrimination at work sites or at businesses that didn’t want to serve her, Lizardo said.
She managed to stay upbeat nevertheless, he said. He was planning a party for her 40th birthday, which falls at the end of August.“Yet again, we find ourselves having to memorialize and honor a member of our community who was taken from us long before her time,” Tori Cooper, the Human Rights Campaign’s director of community engagement for its Transgender Justice Initiative,” said in a press release. “Marisela Castro’s life, from all we know of it, was filled with love for family and friends, all of whom now share in the grief of her loss.
