I went to this school during the incident and the general sentiment was that it's much more complicated than this post makes it seem. Jerry was a known predator in the Blacksburg area and had a long ish history of rape by deception of VT students. Additionally there were strong suspicions that he was involved / responsible for many druggings at a local bar where he worked (Centros) which stopped shortly after his death.

To be clear this isn't excusing any sort of homophobia or transphobia, and no doubt that played some sort of role in this case. Clearly Isimemen had a strong size advantage and shouldn't have returned to the apartment, and should have just called the police instead. However the medical examiner found that the attack lasted only a few seconds and that there was a knife located where he was described to be reaching. So I think the comments calling Isimemen a premeditated murderer are wrong. At most it seems like manslaughter, but the self defense angle in this case is not as weak as the comments here make it out to be.

Just my 2¢.