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DA charges Union City boyfriend with death of 24-year-old transgender woman
By KTVU staff article
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Santa Clara County District Attorney on Tuesday announced that prosecutors had charged a Union City with murder, following the death of a 24-year-old transgender woman in Milpitas.
In a statement, prosecutors said that Elijah Cruz Segura, 22, stabbed to death Xeonte Brown, also known as Natalia Smüt Lopez on April 23, and then called 911 about 2:30 a.m.
Responding officers arrived at a home in the 1000 block of Hillview Court in Milpitas found the woman with multiple stab wounds.
She was pronounced dead at the hospital. Segura, whom authorities said had blood on both of his hands, was arrested at the scene.