Bud Light
2023-09-06 05:18:48 UTC
Pretending to be a woman to hook up with a male? He deserved being killed.
An 18-year-old high school student was allegedly so upset afterfinding out a woman he went home with was transgender that he
killed her.
Even after firing his gun twice at Selena Reyes-Hernandez,
Orlando Perez confessed to detectives that he went back to Reyes-
Hernandezs Marquette Park residence a second time so he could
shoot her lifeless body again, Cook County prosecutors said
Tuesday.
Police and the Cook County medical examiners office identified
Reyes-Hernandez by her birth name, but prosecutors said she
preferred to go by the first name of Selena.
Although they lived blocks apart, there was no indication Perez
and 37-year-old Reyes-Hernandez knew each other before they were
seen on video surveillance returning to Reyes-Hernandezs home
together around 5:30 a.m. on May 31, prosecutors said.
Perez allegedly told detectives during a video-recorded
statement that while inside, he asked Reyes-Hernandez if she was
a girl. When she said she was trans, he told her he had to leave.
Surveillance cameras show Perez leaving 20 minutes later, and
then returning around 6 a.m. with a dark face covering,
prosecutors said. The video allegedly shows Perez take out a
handgun and rack the slide as he approaches Reyes-Hernandezs
home in the 3300 block of West 71st Street.
Perez was also recorded hopping over the gate to Reyes-
Hernandezs home and then leaving again minutes later,
prosecutors said. Perez allegedly told detectives after finding
the victims door open, he walked in and shot her in the head
and back.
He thought that was enough so he ran out. But he kept seeing
her face, so he went back there to do it again, Assistant
States Attorney James Murphy said during Perezs bond hearing.
Perez shot Reyes-Hernandezs body several more times while she
lay face down on the floor, prosecutors said. A witness who
heard loud noises later discovered Reyes-Hernandezs body later
that morning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/16/21293263/man-
murdered-transgender-woman-marquette-park