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Police charged Pedro Silva-Renteria in the May 4 death of a Latina transgender woman in her Brookhaven apartment. (Images courtesy Brookhaven Police Department)
Police are searching for an 18-year-old Norcross man charged with murdering a Latina transgender woman in her metro Atlanta apartment two weeks ago.
Pedro Silva-Renteria is suspected of shooting Sophie Vasquez more than once and killing her around 2 a.m. on May 4 inside her apartment near Clairmont Road, according to the Brookhaven Police Department.
Police obtained an arrest warrant charging Silva-Renteria with murder on May 11, but didn’t go public with the information until Tuesday – a week later. On May 12, police briefed media outlets about Vasquez’s death, but they did not disclose the arrest warrant and stopped short of saying they identified a suspect.
Trans woman shot and killed outside apartment in Brookhaven, police say
By Aungelique Proctor and FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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Police investigate trans woman sot and killed at her apartment
Brookhaven police are saying there are active leads in the case and do not believe she was targeted for her transgender status.
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. - Police said investigators have leads in the homicide investigation of a transgender woman was shot and killed outside her apartment in Brookhaven.
Police said 36-year-old Sophia Arrieta Vasquez was shot dead at her apartment on May 4.
Police said officers responded to a call of a person shot that morning to find Arrieta Vasquez suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the doorway of her apartment at 100 Windmont Drive. Police said she was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Brookhaven Deputy Police Chief Brandon Gurley said Wednesday that the shooting death of a 36-year-transgender woman was not a hate crime. (Photo by Matt Hennie)
A Latina transgender woman killed in her Brookhaven apartment was shot more than once but was not targeted over her gender identity, police officials said Wednesday.
Sophie Vasquez, 36, was killed in the early morning hours of May 4 but her body was left in the doorway to her apartment for up to six hours before police were called about 8 a.m. Investigators identified at least one person inside the apartment with Vasquez before she was killed, according to Brandon Gurley, deputy chief of the Brookhaven Police Department.