Sophie Vásquez, a 36-year-old Latina transgender, 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 where 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