Murder suspect said his ‘manhood’ was threatened when he found out he was hitting on transgender woman

By: Shayna Jacobs 

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His bruised male ego made him kill.

The 25-year-old man accused of killing a transgender woman at first denied he was “hollering” at victim Islan Nettles before the fatal encounter until a dogged detective called his bluff during a 2013 interrogation.