In her very first interview since the accident on Sep 20, Daniela Calderon talks about the details and the man who tried to shoot her was released on a bail.





Daniela Calderon never expected that this would ever happen to her.





She'd seen a lot of stories about other transgender woman getting attacked even killed sometimes but that was all on TV. Living alone thousands of miles away from her family in Honduras, Daniela sometimes worried about not having a strong supporting network in Dallas.





The victim was never attacked before and that's what she was reminding her self with to keep fear away.





Also she was doing anything she could to stay safe when she was working on the street. She always used protection (Condoms). She got tested every month and she stayed fit, just in case.

She felt safe there, she told her self that everything will be okay.





Then, on the night of September 20, Calderon was working in Northwest Dallas when a guy came to her with 80$ in his pocket and a gun hidden in the cab of his truck.

and this is what they talked about:





The Guy: "Are you afraid?"

The Guy: "Are you afraid of dying tonight?"





The victim said the he just took out the gun and the rest was horrible.





What Happened Exactly?

The victim "Calderon", 35 years old, was born in Honduras and raised in the capital ( Tegucigalpa ).

Losing her mother at the age of 10 and with a father abandoning the family, Daniela had to find a way to survive by her self.

Getting fired from the restaurant that she was working on because the manager didn't want "gays" working in there made her believe that it's time to leave.





Daniela moved to the US and she is living there for the past 10 years, she started working in sex business starting in Florida and later Texas, Safety was always on her mind.





Calderon propping up on a pillow next to her hospital bed says:

"I was a little afraid, but I never imagined it would happen to me"

Then she adds in Spanish:

"I feel an irreversible trauma, something that I wouldn't wish on anyone, no one, absolutely no one. Why? Because I'll be marked for the rest of my life".

In her first interview after the accident, Calderon describes what happened that night:

Two weeks before, sooo frustrated the criminal was released on bail after just few days when he was arrested.

Calderon says even before regaining strength enough to walk out





"He is back out on the streets"





"He did it without regret, he will do it again"





It was 11 P.m. when it started, it was Friday night, the victim was working on Dennis Road when a man in a red truck approached her, Daniela felt suspicious of him at the beginning, but when he asked for oral sex and she agreed to the price she felt safer.

But things went bad quickly after that.





The man: "Why do you talk like that"

Calderon: "I am a transgender woman

The man: "Oh you are a man"

Calderon: "Remembers, {gesturing with her red painted nails} call me whatever you want but don't disrespect me."





The man said that he would change his mind then, but for whatever a reason he kept pursing her.

Calderon says he lobbed homophobic and transphobic slurs at her and the the man adds:





"Tonight you won't live anymore, at any moment they will kill you"





Calderon ran to a nearby shop and she stayed there for a while, then he looked around outside, and there was no sign of him.

Suddenly he comes from the other side from the back, so she can't see him and when she finally spotted him she said she didn't have enough time to react before he pulled out a pistole and aimed it at her





Calderon: "All what I remember was BOOM BOOM BOOM"







