A D.C. conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs among Latinos opened on Monday with a moment of silence for a transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Puerto Rico last week.
The National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Summit opened at the Capital Hilton a week after Alexa was killed in a park in Toa Baja, a municipality that is about 15 miles west of San Juan.
Police hours before Alexa was murdered on Feb. 24 responded to a report that she was “peeping” on people who were using a McDonald’s restroom.
Media reports indicate the person who filed the complaint against Alexa declined to press charges against her once they learned she was homeless.
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