Washington, 40, was shot four times on the 3400 block of North 11th Street in the Franklinville neighborhood of North Philly. She died at Temple University Hospital. The district attorney s office did not prosecute the case as a hate crime, according to Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey. We do not believe that Ms. Washington was killed because she was a transgender woman, Lightsey said during a news conference Monday at the William Way LGBT Community Center on Spruce Street. Certain cases may not be hate crimes, (but) there s definitely hate against trans women, added Kelly Burkhardt, an LGTBQ+ liaison for the district attorney s office. The average life expectancy of a trans woman, especially a trans woman of color, is 35 years old.