A transgender man was murdered in Puerto Rico on Jan. 9. Media reports indicate authorities found Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín’s body in the middle of a highway in Trujillo Alto, a municipality outside of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, after a motorist struck it.
WAPA reported Damián had been shot several times. The Puerto Rico television also said authorities initially identified Damián as a woman.
Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, a Puerto Rican LGBTQ rights group, on Tuesday noted to the Washington Blade that Adrián is the seventh trans person murdered in the U.S.
commonwealth over the last year. Two men who allegedly killed two trans women — Serena Angelique Velázquez and Layla Pelaez — in Humacao last