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.
UpdatedWed, May 12, 2021 at 5:35 pm ET
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Brookhaven police found 36-year-old Sophie Arrieta Vasquez in the doorway of her apartment suffering from several gunshot wounds on May 4. She was pronounced dead on the scene. (Brookhaven Police Department)
BROOKHAVEN, GA A transgender woman was found shot and killed in the doorway of her Brookhaven apartment last week, and police say they do not have evidence at this point that she was killed based on her gender.
Around 8:15 a.m. May 4, Brookhaven Police Department officers responded to a report of a person shot at the Atlantic Brookhaven Apartments complex, according to a May 12 news release from BPD.
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Sophie Vásquez, a 36-year-old Latina transgender woman, was fatally shot in her Brookhaven, Atlanta apartment last week.
Police found her body neglected in the doorway of an apartment in the 400 building at Atlantic Brookhaven. Vásquez was not a recorded resident, according to Project Q.
Brookhaven Police Department later confirmed Vásquez was murdered in Gwinnett County in the early morning.
The 36-year-old was misgendered and deadnamed in the police report for the case.
“Through communications with the Community Estrella and the Brookhaven Police Department, I confirmed reports that a Latina transgender woman, Sophie Vasquez, was murdered in Gwinnett County on the morning of May 4,” Darlene Darlington Wagner, the President at Transgender Day of Remembrance Atlanta shared on Facebook.
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Sophie Vasquez was shot and killed inside a Brookhaven apartment on May 4. (Images courtesy Facebook profile)
UPDATE | The story was updated to reflect the latest details on a vigil planned for May 12 and where Vasquez lived.
A 36-year-old Latina transgender woman was shot and killed in a Brookhaven apartment and became at least the second trans woman killed in metro Atlanta this year.
Sophie Vasquez was shot at least once, and police found her body in the doorway of an apartment in the 400 building at Atlantic Brookhaven on May 4. The apartment complex on Windmont Drive is near Clairmont Road just south of its intersection with Buford Highway.