#SheWas16 Trends on Twitter Over Murder Case Against Zephi Trevino, Alleged Trafficking Victim
On 4/16/21 at 9:15 PM EDT
The hashtag #SheWas16 trended on Twitter amid a campaign to convince officials to drop murder charges against Zephaniah "Zephi" Trevino, who supporters say was an innocent victim of child sex trafficking during a fatal shooting in 2019.
Trevino, 18, was 16 years old when 24-year-old Carlos Arajeni-Arriaza Morillo was killed in Grand Prairie, Texas. Prosecutors have charged her with the murder of Morillo during an attempted robbery, alongside Jesse Martinez and Philip Aguilera Baldenegro. Trevino's defense claims that she was being trafficked by Baldenegro, with Morillo having planned to pay to sexually abuse Trevino before being killed. Baldenegro does not dispute that he was the person who pulled the trigger.