Angie Zapata in Greeley, CO
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BRIGHTON -- At least 200 people gathered on Wednesday night to mourn an 18-year-old transgender person who was apparently beaten to death last week.
Justin Zapata, who went by the name Angie Zapata and was living as a woman, was found dead in a Greeley apartment in the 2000 block of 4th Street on July 17.
She had fatal wounds to her head and face.
Greeley Police say they don't have the evidence to definitively call Zapata's murder a hate crime, but they are not ruling it out.
Her family and friends remain convinced that was the reason she was killed.
"Why would anybody, you would dare do something like that? Why?" said Alicia Portillo, one of Zapata's friends.
Zapata's funeral service was held Wednesday night in Brighton.
Police believe they are getting close to a suspect.
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Take on those you have to; ignore idiots like this.
Hates attracts love, respect, money and good health...yeah right! :-)
I live in Greeley.
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Please open your lil narrow eyes...It happens all the time! Many of us are killed just for walking down the street. Some creep playing God ends another humans life and laughs. So what should this person walking to work, home, or just out walking do? Your statement feeds into that hate and shows you are just as full of sin as any who has lived on this earth. Are you God?
"It was sexual assault"
"Can't blame a man for beating or killing someone who threatens his heterosexuality"
"It was her fault"
"this is not a hate crime"
No no no and no - Angie was not physical threat. She apparently met no resistance. She did not intimidate. Any woman who's been assaulted can tell you the difference here. And that mentality - that a man has to violently punish anyone who threatens his ego - That is hate. That has to be punished.