OAKLAND — It will soon be up to a jury to decide the fate of a well-known transgender rights activist accused of murdering three family members during a frenzied stabbing and shooting in which one of the victims was stabbed to the point of disfigurement as she and her spouse slept in their bed.
At the close of Rivers’ three-week-long trial Monday, Deputy District Attorney Abigail Mulvihil told jurors that Rivers carefully planned to murder the couple, spending weeks gaining their trust and visiting their home, while planning the slaughter in advance. Rivers used a pistol equipped with a silencer to shoot Reed and Wright as they slept in an upstairs bedroom, then fired at Diambu-Wright as he ran for his life out of the home, striking him in the heart, the prosecutor said.
“ stabbed over and over and over and over,” Mulvihill said, her voice rising, as she banged the podium with her fist. She later added, “ wanted Charlotte Reed to be unrecognizable. She succeeded.”
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