He was murdered because he called someone a name. That caused her to spit on him which he responded to by striking her. At every turn she was the aggressor.

I don’t think you know what that word means. Not only he was a transphobe piece of shit and started the whole confrontation in that specific way, at every turn he chose to escalate despite the involvement of the bystanders to pacify the situation. You just don’t have the right to enact violence on people, sometimes you find that out the hard way.