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Serenity Hollis was shot and killed as she walked along West Highland Avenue in Albany on May 8. (Images courtesy Facebook profile)
A 24-year-old Black transgender woman was shot in the head and killed in Albany in what a local prosecutor labeled as a likely hate crime.Â
Serenity Hollis was killed after a person approached her from behind and shot her about 4 a.m. on May 8 in the 700 block of West Highland Avenue. Hollis was gunned down on the same street in the southwest Georgia city where she was attacked and stabbed 22 times in April 2019.
Hollisâ killer jogged away after shooting her once as she walked in the street, according to video of the homicide released by the Albany Police Department. Police were called to the scene of the shooting nearly an hour after it happened. Her killer has not been identified or arrested.
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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.
Police searching for 17-year-old murder suspect in area of Clairmont Road, they say
Brookhaven Police said Pedro Silva-Renteria lives in the Norcross area but may be walking in the Clairmont Road area of Brookhaven. Author: Jessica Brown Updated: 10:02 PM EDT May 18, 2021
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. The Brookhaven Police Department is asking the public s help finding a 17-year-old suspect charged in the murder of Sophie Vasquez that took place on Tuesday, May 4.
They said they issued an arrest warrant charging Pedro Silva-Renteria, of Norcross, for murder.
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For the last week, federal and local police have been searching for Silva-Renteria but have not found him, they said.
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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.