MIAMI – The local LGBTQ community is mourning a beloved transgender woman after officers found her dead inside her 19th-floor condo in Miami.
He is facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of Yunieski Carey Herrera, a Cuban salsa dancer, and performer who had competed in beauty pageants for years.
On Wednesday, Innuritegui-Lint still couldn’t believe that Herrera had become the 36th transgender woman to be murdered this year in the United States or that it would happen during Transgender Awareness Week.
“She was in love.”Ygor Arrudasouza, right, told police officers on Tuesday that he stabbed Yunieski Carey Herrera, left, to death, police said.
(Local 10 News Share)According to the arrest report, Arrudasouza is a Brazilian dancer who loved Herrera so much he had a “Yuni” tattoo on his left hip.