The January 6 stabbing death of 27-year-old Emilie Inman in Berkeley, California, and the arrest of the alleged killer, 22-year-old University of California-Berkeley undergraduate Pablo Gomez, Jr., who is suspected of stabbing another young Berkeley woman although not fatally, remains shrouded in mystery. We don’t know whether Inman was acquainted with her alleged murderer or how he got into the house where she lived on Ashby Street, in one of the most boho neighborhoods in boho Berkeley. But there is one thing we do know: The Inman murder tells us everything we need to know about navy-blue California. The cast of characters alone tells the story:

The alleged killer. Gomez is a certified intersectional twofer, with double-victimological status as both a Latino and also a transgender, or at least a gender-neutral. He self-identitied on his Twitter profile as “nonbinary, pan xicanx who loves dr pepper.” The first “x” in “xicanx” is because Latino activists have decided that the Spanish consonant combination “ch” in “Chicano” is colonialist. The second “x” is the gender-neutral substitute for the masculine “o” and feminine “a” in “Chicano” and “Chicana.” On the UC-Berkeley campus the 5′-6” Gomez dabbled in every stylishly progressive cause you can think of. According to his Facebook page, he was majoring in “Chicanx/Latinx studies.” He was involved in the campus Queer Alliance Resource Center, and, according to news accounts, was a “senior climate action fellow” at the campus Alliance for Climate Education (which appears to have recently scrubbed all references to him from its website, although an apparently overlooked photo of him remains). He helped organize a graffiti-chalking to protest the return of a UC-Berkeley law professor who had been found in violation of the university’s sexual-harassment policy. He was on the scene of a Black Lives Matter-style freeway blocking to protest the 2014 Ferguson killing. In September 2016 he was captured on video harassing UC-Berkeley’s College Republicans and trying to grab what was said to be a Donald J. Trump poster. His tweet history included such statements as “The United States is a violent white supremacist empire whose only fate is annihilation.” You have to wonder when he found time to study.