El Salvador Police Officers Convicted In Murder Of Trans Woman The U.S. Deported

08/04/2020 08:22 pm ET

Camila Díaz Córdova wanted to live in the U.S. to escape the rampant anti-LGBTQ violence in her native country, her friends say.

By Hayley Miller

Three police officers in El Salvador have been found guilty of the 2019 murder of Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender woman who sought asylum in the U.S. but was deported back to the Central American country a year before her death.

A judge in El Salvador convicted the officers ― Jaime Geovany Mendoza Rivas, Luis Alfredo Avelar Sandoval and Carlos Valentín Rosales Carpio ― of aggravated homicide on July 28. They were each sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The officers arrested Díaz Córdova on Jan. 31, 2019, while responding to a public disturbance complaint. Prosecutors said the officers put the 29-year-old in their vehicle, brutally attacked her and then abandoned her in a vacant lot.

Díaz Córdova was found later that day and transported to a hospital. She died of her injuries three days later, reported Salvadoran newspaper El Diaro De Hoy.

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