Angie Zapata's killer claims that he simply "snapped" when he learned the woman he had begun to date was transgender. This legal strategy, often referred to as "gay panic" or, in the case of Angie ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. In many ways, Angie Zapata was not unlike a lot of other teenagers you probably know. She had a particular ...

”She was always happy,” said Alicia Portillo, one of Angie’s friends. “She loved music. She didn’t care what people thought of her. She always just wanted to be who she was, and that was female, and ...

Jury deliberates only 2 hours before rejecting Andrade’s ‘trans panic’ defense; conviction carries mandatory sentence of life without parole GREELEY, Colo. — A man who claimed he snapped before ...

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