Ex-Marine who killed wife is shot to death by Pa. police as he fatally beats transgender woman
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
By Trevor Dunnell, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. (TNS)
A former Camp Lejeune Marine who was convicted in 2014 for the shooting death of his wife was gunned down by police in Pennsylvania after officers say they witnessed him beating a transgender woman, who later died as a result of her injuries.
At about 11 a.m. Friday, New Wilmington police were called to a home on South New Castle Street. When officers arrived, they found 33-year-old Juan Carter Hernandez beating 24-year-old Chyna Carrillo with a blunt object. When officers ordered Hernandez to stop, he ignored them and continued beating her, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Chyna Carrillo’s murder has marked the seventh trans death in the US this year.
Carrillo, who also went by Chyna Cardenas, was brutally killed on the morning of February 18, 2021.
Police were called to Carrillo’s house at 11AM after Juan Carter Hernandez was seen beating her with a “blunt object” in broad daylight, according to LGBTQ+ Nation.
Hernandez is suspected to have been a previously convicted criminal. A man with the same name was seemed guilty for murdered his wife in 2013 and an ex-girlfriend, Kandace Hernandez, in July 2011.
Once officers arrived, they ordered Hernandez to stop his attack. After failing to comply with police directions, the perpetrator was fatally shot at the scene.
A former Camp Lejeune Marine was killed in Pennsylvania after police say they arrived to the scene where he was assaulting a transgender woman and refused to stop. He was convicted in 2014 for the murder of his wife in Onslow.