MIAMI – The native LGBTQ neighborhood is mourning a beloved transgender lady after officers discovered her lifeless inside her Nineteenth-floor condominium in Miami. Detectives recognized her killer as a 27-year-old man who confessed to being below the affect of meth when he used a fork and a knife to stab her in a match of jealous rage.
Ygor Arrudasouza was in tears when he appeared in Miami-Dade County courtroom on Wednesday. He’s dealing with a second-degree homicide cost within the demise of Yunieski Carey Herrera, a Cuban salsa dancer, and performer who had competed in magnificence pageants for years.
“I began again in 2004 after I was requested to mannequin for an area vogue present … in Los Angeles and I simply bought addicted,” she told a blogger in 2015, including it had change into her “ardour in life.”
Herrera was also called the mannequin “Yuni Carey” and as an area activist. Herrera’s pal Raul Griffith mentioned she was a swish star who was liked and admired within the LGBTQ neighborhood. Griffith mentioned he liked Herrera like a sister.
“Apart from being strikingly lovely, she was form and she or he was good and she or he cared as a lot about others as she would about herself,” Griffith mentioned, including “She was a really particular individual for many individuals.”
Arianna Innuritegui-Lint, the chief government officer of Arianna’s Center, a nonprofit group that goals to empower the trans neighborhood of South Florida, mentioned Herrera was “superb” and “candy.” She remembers her as somebody who had made her goals come true and who wished to assist others do the identical.
On Wednesday, Innuritegui-Lint nonetheless couldn’t consider that Herrera had change into the thirty sixth transgender lady to be murdered this yr in the US or that it will occur throughout Transgender Awareness Week.
“She had an ideal life,” Innuritegui-Lint mentioned. “She was in love.”
In accordance with the arrest report, Arrudasouza is a Brazilian dancer who liked Herrera a lot he had a “Yuni” tattoo on his left hip. Herrera had shared a public video on Oct. 15 displaying him getting the tattoo.
“He bought my title! My husband loves me,” Herrera wrote.
Arrudasouza referred to as 911 at about 4:25 a.m. on Tuesday. He advised law enforcement officials meth had ruined his life and he had stabbed his spouse inside their residence on the Artwork Plaza Tower, at 58 NE 14th St., Apt. 1902, close to the Adrienne Arsht Heart for the Performing Arts. Miami Fireplace Rescue personnel pronounced Herrera lifeless at 4:38 a.m. She was 39.
Throughout questioning, Arrudasouza advised a detective that he was arguing with Herrera when she advised him that “she had a greater man” than him, in line with the arrest report. He mentioned he went to the kitchen to seize the knife and the fork, pushed her from the mattress, and stabbed her when she was on the ground, police mentioned.
Arrudasouza “stabbed her a number of instances till he realized what he had achieved,” an officer wrote within the police report, including that in his confession he additionally mentioned he “deserves the punishment that involves him.”
Arrudasouza had a current historical past of violence. Miami-Dade County courtroom information present he was arrested in January on three battery costs. The case stays open and he has a trial listening to on March 8.
Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation information present Arrudasouza has an immigration maintain and he was out on a felony bond when the homicide occurred. Data present he’s being held with out bond on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart.
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