Yes, they referred to the killer as “female” because that’s how he’d been styling himself lately. Remember the media are all-in on this tranny sickness and slavishly refer to trannies by their “preferred pronouns.” The murderer was a Salvadoran criminal named Jeffrey Escalante. (”Jeffrey” may also have been an assumed name.)
I think you have it backward. Born Genesse Moreno, styled hersel as Jeffrey Escalante.