Natalia Smüt, Local Drag Legend, is 17th 2021 Trans Person Killed
Police arrested her boyfriend, Elijah Cruz Segura, and charged him with the murder.
April 29 2021 12:19 PM EDT
Natalia Smüt, 24 a Black, Puerto Rican transgender woman, was stabbed to death in Milpitas, California, last Friday. Smüt , a local drag legend, is the 17th reported transg person to be violently killed so far in 2022, and the second trans victim of violence in less than a week.
According to a report in the
East Bay Times, Smut was stabbed to death Friday night in the Northern California city of Milpitas by Elijah Cruz Segura, 22, of nearby Union City. Segura, 22, was arraigned Tuesday where he faced charges of murder with a weapon enhancement for the use of a knife in the killing, but he did not enter a plea during his brief courtroom appearance.

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