A man who identifies as transgender appeared in a California court yesterday after being charged with the brutal stabbing of a homeless woman.
Steven Raymundo, who goes by the name Isabella Kurumi Asuka Raymundo, was seen on a surveillance recording repeatedly stabbing 58-year-old Patricia Roper in front of a post office near Blackstone on the evening of July 23.
Roper was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead. Authorities quickly identified Raymundo, 37, as a suspect. Officers located and arrested Raymundo and detained him in Fresno County Jail, where he has since been charged with murder. He is currently recorded as a male in the Jail system.
Local news outlets have reported that Raymundo and Roper knew each other prior to the violent attack, and both had been in a situation of homelessness. During a police interview, Raymundo denied involvement in the stabbing despite being faced with the security camera footage.
Police have yet to determine a motive for the stabbing.
Raymundo has a long criminal history dating back to 2015 including carjacking, inflicting injury to a child, spousal abuse, and having sexual intercourse with a minor. Raymundo had been arrested on July 15 on a felony warrant, but was released the next day due to overcrowding in the jail. Less than one week later, he stabbed Patricia Roper to death.
According to multiple social media profiles viewed by Reduxx, Raymundo claims to be originally from Guadalajara, Mexico and attended Shasta College. In photos uploaded to Facebook, Raymundo can be seen flashing gang signs, posing with a shotgun, and boasting about an upcoming genital surgery.
In December of 2022, Raymundo made several posts announcing appointments he’d had with a surgeon in preparation for a “vaginoplasty.”
“I’m so happy my first surgery will be my vaginoplasty whoo hoo I get my pussy I can’t wait to look and touch it,” Raymundo wrote on December 16.
That same day, he also posted: “Talking to my surgeon about my vaginoplasty and facial feminization I’m so excited I can’t wait to get my vagina – meow – I’m super excited!!!”
Other posts made to his Facebook accounts depict animated Japanese pornography. Among the Facebook pages followed by Raymundo is a sex toy shop in Los Angeles and an account that shares BDSM themed content called “I’ve Been Naughty.”
Under current California law, Raymundo, if found guilty, could find his way into a women’s correctional institution.
California has one of the most liberal prisons self-identification policies in the country, something that has become a point of contention for women’s rights advocates.
S.B-132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, was signed into effect in January of 2021 by California Governor Gavin Newsom. The law provides inmates housing based on their self-declared gender identity status.
Almost immediately after the legal guideline went into effect, California correctional centers were hit with hundreds of transfer requests from male inmates seeking movement into women’s facilities.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has previously confirmed to Reduxx that prison transfer requests are based entirely off of a Gender Identity Questionnaire that could be issued during reception or requested by the inmate at any time during their incarceration.
The Questionnaire is form with a short series of questions in which inmates can declare their pronouns, honorifics, and gender identity.
Male inmates do not need to identify as transgender to request transfer, and can simply identify gender non-conforming, or non-binary.
Last year, Reduxx reported that a pedophile who had molested a 4-year-old girl had been moved to the California Institution for Women despite having been denied a gender and name change, and still legally being a male.
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