Samuel Luiz Muñiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was beaten to death in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 3 July 2021.

According to several witnesses, including the victim's friends, the crime was motivated by homophobia,[1][2] which led to country-wide demonstrations in his memory, and in defence of LGBT community.

[12] In a television interview, Luiz's father said that he had only spoken once to his son about the possibility that he was gay, but the young man did not want to continue the conversation.

[16][17][18][19] Two men who helped to interrupt the initial fight are reported to be Ibrahima Shakur and Magatte, illegal immigrants from Senegal, who work as hawkers.

Overall, all suspects are deemed to have a known track record of previous street violence but managed to stay mostly under the police radar prior to the killing of Luiz.

[3][4] In Madrid, police employed baton charges to break up demonstrations in the city centre; these actions were condemned by politicians including Mónica García and Pablo Echenique.

[39][40][41] Juan Carlos Monedero, a former leading member of Podemos, wrote on Twitter, "Let's see if anyone can explain to me what God were Vox and their supporters are praying to when they murder someone because of their hatred of homosexuals.

Think about it @AlmeidaPP_ (José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid), if you had put up the LGBTI flag on the city hall, the murder of Samuel would have been a bit more difficult."

[42] Vox also announced plans to sue the political pundit Martu Garrote for having written "You spend all your life raising a son, ensuring his dream and, when you are happy because he is a nursing assistant, because he is a good person, because the worst has already happened, a pack of hyenas come and kill him because he doesn't live and love according to dogma.