Slain Teen Said to Have Offered Cash for Safety
From Staff and Wire Reports
A transgender teen under attack after partygoers discovered that the girl they knew as Lida was anatomically male apparently made a desperate bid for safety by offering a cash ransom if she were let free, a witness testified Monday.
Jaron Chase Nabors, who was at the party the night the teenager was killed, said defendant Jason Michael Cazares, 22, told him “that Lida had offered him a couple of grand to get her out of the house.” The answer was no, “obviously,” Nabors said.
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