Prosecutors seek death penalty in transgender teen's killing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 11:14 am, Tuesday, April 3, 2018

HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for one of the suspects in the slaying of a transgender teenager in southwest Missouri.

Court records show a notice requesting the sentence for Andrew Vrba was filed Monday. Vrba is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Ally Steinfeld. Vrba's attorney declined comment ahead of a hearing Tuesday.

Investigators say Steinfeld was stabbed several times, including in the genitals. Her eyes were gouged out and her body was set on fire. Officials say the slaying wasn't a hate crime. Steinfeld's remains were found in September near Cabool.

One female suspect has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder, while another awaits a first-degree murder trial. A fourth suspect has pleaded not guilty to abandonment of a corpse.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-in-transgender-12801448.php

[Initech]

1. Only if he gets what he did to that kid.

Otherwise any other form of punishment is too light.

[icymist]

2. Stabbing the genitals and gouging out the eyes and it's still not a hate crime?

WTF do the perpetrators have to do? Carve 'I hate you' in the belly?

[Lil Missy]

3. Stabbing the genitals of a transgender HATE CRIME!!!

My gawd, what an awful thing to do to someone.

[radicalliberal]

4. "Investigators say Steinfeld was stabbed several times, including in the genitals. . . .

. . . Her eyes were gouged out and her body was set on fire. Officials say the slaying wasn't a hate crime."




If that isn't a hate crime, I don't know what is.