Trans woman beaten & tortured by sadistic roommates during horrific kidnapping

Two men have been charged in the sexual assault, kidnapping, and torture of a transgender woman in the Las Vegas area.

The unidentified woman contacted police from a hospital where family took her after she was discovered walking in her neighborhood after the assault.

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Diego Verduzco and Daniel Corpus-Perez face charges including sexual assault, first-degree kidnapping, battery to commit sexual assault, assault, and robbery, prosecutors said. 

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Verduzco earned an additional charge of assault with a deadly weapon after threatening the woman with an AR-15-style assault weapon.

The woman told police she met Verduzco on the dating app Scout a few weeks before the incident, which she says took place overnight on August 22 and 23.

Police say the woman recounted in an interview that Verduzco sent a Lyft to pick her up and bring her to his home in North Las Vegas, which he shared with Corpus-Perez and several other men.

According to the woman, they started drinking together and she noticed that Verduzco was also consuming methamphetamine. She recalled they drove to the Strip and walked around the Bellagio Hotel and Caesars Palace before returning to Verduzco’s house.

When they arrived, Verduzco was “irritated that his roommates were playing loud music,” the victim said. When she told him to shut up about it, the victim says Verduzco warned her she’s “lucky he doesn’t kill her.” When she said she would fight back if Verduzco touched her, Verduzco punched her in the face and she was knocked unconscious.

When she came to, the victim says Verduzco and Corpus-Perez were binding her wrists and ankles with wire. She says Verduzco urinated on her before sexually assaulting her.

Court documents indicate Verduzco then pointed an AR-15-style rifle at the victim’s forehead and threatened, “She better behave or she’s going to die.” When she tried to free herself, the men cut the front of her shirt with a knife and warned, “She better start behaving and she better not try to run away.”

According to the victim, the men continued to punch and kick her for several hours and burned her with a black torch lighter.

Verduzco allegedly searched the victim’s phone, as well, stating at one point, “‘Oh, here is your mom’s number, this is good,’ and took multiple pictures” of the screen.

The victim also claims Verduzco ordered her to sit and watch “woke” videos while berating her that she had brought “this entire event” on herself. 

Verduzco drove the victim to her neighborhood several hours later, police said. He threatened to kill her and her family if there were “any marshals knocking on his door later.”

The victim had bruises on her face, a cracked tooth, and marks on her wrists and ankles, according to police.

A day later, Metro police responded to Verduzco’s home for a “domestic battery incident with someone… armed with a ‘long gun,’” court documents said. Verduzco fired one round in the incident.

A SWAT team took Verduzco, Corpus-Perez, and several others in the house into custody.

The North Las Vegas Justice Court judge set bail at $40,000 for Verduzco and $10,000 for Corpus-Perez.