MIAMI – The local LGBTQ community is mourning a beloved transgender woman after officers found her dead inside her 19th-floor condo in Miami. The suspect was identified by detectives as a 27-year old man. He admitted that he had been using a knife and fork to attack her during a jealous rage fit.
Ygor was overcome with emotion when he arrived at Miami-Dade County’s courtroom on Wednesday. In the murder of Yunieski Cary Herrera (a Cuban dancer and performer who competed in beauty pageants over many years), he is being charged with second-degree.
“I started back in 2004 when I was asked to model for a local fashion show … in Los Angeles and I just got addicted,” she told a blogger in 2015, adding it had become her “passion in life.”
“Besides being strikingly beautiful, she was kind and she was good and she cared as much about others as she would about herself,” Griffith said, adding “She was a very special person for many people.”
Yunieski Carey Herrera was a transgender lady who suffered domestic violence in her Miami apartment. (Local 10 New Share)
Arianna Innuritegui – Lint is the chief executive officer at Arianna’s Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower the trans community of South Florida, said Herrera was “amazing” and “sweet.” She remembers her as someone who had made her dreams come true and who wanted to help others do the same.
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 had a perfect life,” Innuritegui-Lint said. “She was in love.”
According to the arrest report, Arrudasouza is a Brazilian dancer who loved Herrera so much he had a “Yuni” tattoo on his left hip. Herrera had shared a public video on Oct. 15 Show him how the tattoo is done.
“He got my name! My husband loves me,” Herrera wrote.
Arrudasouza dialed 911 on Tuesday morning at 4:25 AM. Police officers were told that he claimed meth had destroyed him, and that he had stabbed his wife at their home at Art Plaza Tower (58 NE 14th St. Apt. 1902 near Adrienne Arsht Centre for the Performing Art. At 4:38 AM, Miami Fire Rescue declared Herrera deceased.
When a man uses knife and fork in an attempt to stab his wife, it ends up being a tragic love story
During questioning, Arrudasouza told a detective that he was arguing with Herrera when she told him that “she had a better man” than him, according to the arrest report. According to police, Arrudasouza claimed that he went into the kitchen and grabbed the knife, fork and fork and then pushed Herrera off the bed and stabbed her while she was lying on the ground.
Arrudasouza “stabbed her multiple times until he realized what he had done,” an officer wrote in the police report, adding that during his confession he also said he “deserves the punishment that comes to him.”
Arrudasouza has a history of violence. According to Miami-Dade County records, he was charged with three counts of battery in January. His case is open, and he faces a trial on March 8.
According to Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Records, Arrudasouza is on an immigration hold and was released from jail under a felony bail when the crime occurred. He is currently being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond.
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