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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.