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Criminal

May 26, 2004

Expert: 'Perfect Storm' Led to Killing

SAN FRANCISCO - An unhealthy dynamic among a group of immature East Bay men, mixed with alcohol, drugs and the shame that they unwittingly had sex with a biological man, created a "perfect storm" of conditions that propelled the men into killing transgender teenager Eddie Araujo, a defense expert witness told jurors Monday.

By Robert Selna
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - An unhealthy dynamic among a group of immature East Bay men, mixed with alcohol, drugs and the shame that they unwittingly had sex with a biological man, created a "perfect storm" of conditions that propelled the men into killing transgender teenager Eddie Araujo, a defense expert witness...

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