The SFPD's homicide division is obviously incompetent. Anytime a transgender person is murdered, especially when it's brutal it is a hate crime. This may be why killers get away with murder in San Francisco. The homicide division obviously needs to be disbanded and regrouped with qualified investigators.


Suspects Named In Transgender Death Case
Apr. 7 (BCN) — Police have released the names of two suspects in the death of 45-year-old transgender woman Tony Green, whose body was found inside a room at San Francisco motel on Aug. 13.
Green, who also went by the name Delicious, had been beaten, bound, gagged and possibly asphyxiated, officials said on Wednesday. A maid at the Franciscan Motel, 6600 Third St, found her body.

The suspects, Earl Wright, 37, and Terrence Hall, 39, both of San Francisco, are currently in San Quentin State Prison on unrelated charges.

Wright is in prison for possession of a firearm and parole violation and Hall is in for attempting to buy drugs from an undercover officer and violating his probation, San Francisco police Officer Maria Oropeza said.

No-bail arrest warrants have been issued for the two men and "the appropriate holds have been placed on both of the suspects," police reported.

Homicide investigators do not believe Green's homicide was a hate crime, a lieutenant with the department said.

But Tina D'Elia, program director for San Francisco-based Community United Against Violence, said that is not the way she sees it.

"This was not a hit-and-run accident. It did not happen out on the street. Someone's bare hands were torturing her," D'Elia said. "How Delicious spent her last moments in life was so in line with the tortuous murders of transgenders."