In the end, it didn’t matter if Angie Zapata was seen as a man or a woman, but as Maria Zapata’s baby. “I’m my baby’s mom,” a bleary-eyed Maria Zapata said Wednesday. “And I’ve lost something so precious. I feel so, so alone.” Zapata spoke just before Weld District Judge Marcelo Kopcow sentenced her child’s killer — 32-year-old Allen Andrade — to life in prison without possibility of parole. An eight-man, four-woman jury took barely two hours to convict Andrade of first- degree murder. …

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