Killing of Cenida Ramos
At about 1:30 am CT on 12 January 2014, two unknown male suspects on bicycles allegedly stabbed and killed Cenida Ramos, an 18-year-old transgender woman, on Elston Kerr Street in Southside, Belize City, Belize. Police, investigating the crime as a murder, claimed the motive was armed robbery, but family and LGBTQ rights organisations disputed this, alleging it had been a hate crime.