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Oct 4, 2022 · A mother’s struggle 20 years after trans daughter’s brutal murder. Sylvia Guerrero, whose transgender daughter Gwen Araujo was murdered in 2002, sits for a portrait with a photo of her daughter on Saturday, Oct.1, 2022, in Tracy, Calif. Araujo, who spent a lot of time in San Francisco as a teenager, was beaten and strangled to death in ...
Gwen Amber Rose Araujo (February 24, 1985 – October 4, 2002) [1] was an American teenager who was murdered in Newark, California, at the age of 17. [2] She was murdered by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender .
- Feb. 24, 1985
- July 4, 1999
- Late Summer 2002
- Oct. 3, 2002
- Oct. 9, 2002
- Oct. 15, 2002
- Oct. 25, 2002
- Feb. 24, 2003
- Oct. 3, 2003
- March 15, 2004
Gwen Araujo is born to Sylvia Guerrero and Edward Araujo. She is born with male genitalia and raised as a boy by her family, who call her Eddie.
At age 14, Eddie tells his mom that he feels like a girl trapped in a boy's body. Eddie then began transitioning as a woman and called herself Gwen, after her favorite singer Gwen Stefani.
In her third year of living as a woman, Araujo began hanging out with several men that she met in the late summer of 2002. They are 22-year-old Michael Magidson, 22-year-old José Merél, 22-year-old Jason Cazares, and 19-year-old and Jaron Nabors. According to court testimony, Araujo, whom the men knew a Lida, engaged in sexual activity with Michael...
Araujo attended a party at the house José Merél shared with his younger brother, Manny, and his older brother Paul, who also had previously engaged in sexual acts with Gwen. Cazares and Nabors were also at the house, as was Paul Merél's girlfriend, Nicole Brown. By early morning on Oct. 4, the men questioned Araujo and demanded to know if she is bi...
Araujo's family hears rumors about the confrontation and provide information to police, who then get a friend of Nabors to wear a wire from which they record Nabors talking about the murder. Police then question Nabors, Magidson and José Merél.
Nabors takes police to the site where they buried Araujo's body. The Alameda County coroner's report said Araujo died by strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head.
Araujo's funeral is held at St. Edward's Catholic Church in Newark. Her mother released 17 butterflies in her memory. Araujo's remains are cremated.
Jaron Nabors pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter and agrees to testify against his three friends in exchange for an 11 year prison term.
A year after Araujo's death, her mother accepts an award from the Horizons Foundation to speak at local schools and promote a better understanding of transgender people. Sylvia Guerrero has faced hardship since Araujo's death. She lost her job and suffers from post-traumatic stress.
The Gwen Araujo murder trial begins in a Hayward courtroom. Over the course of the trial, defense attorney Tony Serra, who represented Jason Cazares, attacked the credibility of Jaron Nabors, whom he accused of being the primary aggressor and blaming his friends for the murder.
Sep 28, 2022 · Sylvia Guerrero, the mother of Gwen Araujo, spoke outside Alameda County Superior Court in 2006 following the sentencing of the defendants in the case. Attorney Gloria Allred, who worked with Guerrero, is in the background.
Sep 28, 2022 · Michael Magidson, Jose Merel and Jason Cazares, all 24, were charged with beating and strangling 17-year-old Gwen Araujo. Sylvia Guerrero is Araujo’s mother. (AP Photo/Pool, Aric Crabb)
- John Ferrannini
Oct 14, 2016 · Sylvia Guerrero is seen in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Guerrero is the mother of slain transgender teen Gwen Araujo, 17, of Newark.
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Nov 17, 2022 · By this time, Araujo's mother was able to legally change her daughter's name to Gwen Amber Rose Araujo. Four months later, the jury found Magidson and Merel guilty of second-degree...
