This article contains descriptions of fatal violence against a trans woman. After Linda Becerra Moran, a 30-year-old trans woman originally from Ecuador, called the Los Angeles Police Department stating that she was being held in a motel against her will,

A distraught trans sex worker was shot by police at a San Fernando Valley motel last month after she called 911 for help, claiming she had been kidnapped. The incident was captured on officers’ body-worn video released Sunday by the Los Angeles Police Department.

A transgender woman has died of wounds suffered in a shooting by a Los Angeles police officer last month in an incident that has caused much distress among her friends and advocates. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ + news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.

The incident has "chilling connotations" for survivors of sexual violence, a nonprofit director who had worked with the woman told the Los Angeles Times.

A trans woman, Linda Becerra Moran, who called the police for help after claiming she had been kidnapped, was shot dead by officers, video footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department appears to show.