Officials: Transgender teens grisly death not a hate crime

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Officials: Transgender teen’s grisly death not a hate crime

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER
Today

HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) — Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld’s burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen’s eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed in the genitals.

As questions swirl about why the quiet 17-year-old was killed in such a ghastly manner, authorities aren’t saying what led to the killing. But they dismiss the possibility the death was a hate crime.

Authorities identified the remains as those of Joseph Matthew Steinfeld Jr. — Ally Lee Steinfeld’s birth name. They were found last week in the town of Cabool, near the mobile home of one of the alleged killers, 24-year-old Briana Calderas, with whom Steinfeld was living.

Calderas and two 18-year-olds, Andrew Vrba and Isis Schauer, are charged with first-degree murder and other counts. A fourth suspect is charged with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence.

Both Sheriff James Sigman and prosecutor Parke Stevens Jr. insist the crime was not motivated by Steinfeld’s gender identity.

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[Gothmog]

1. Why is this not a hate crime?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. THere is a legitimate one in 2000 chance that the trans issue has nothing to do with this

but to arrive at that conclusion you have to know everything about their lives.

everything

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Odd how they can be SO CERTAIN of this, the only way to be so certain of it

is to know everything about their relationship and unless they are believing the criminals, how could they?

[irisblue]

4. and when does it become a hate crime?

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Curious-- he broke up with a girlfriend and moved in with...

another girlfriend. Then he came out as trans and got killed.

No doubt the sheriff knows a lot more of the details, but it sure could have been a highly unusual lovers' spat.

[LostOne4Ever]

6. "She"

She died because of hate, please at least refer to her as the correct gender in recognition of that.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. "She" was "he" when it all started...

and that was when "he" had a girlfriend. She was "she" when it tragically ended.

And it may well have been a hate crime, but we don't know for sure yet.

[LostOne4Ever]

9. No, "SHE" had a female gender ID from the day she was born

She was just unable to express that until she came out.

And it was a hate Crime. The mutilation to her genitals is proof of that.

[LostOne4Ever]

7. It should be a hate crime too, but Texas always sides with the haters. nt