Celine Walker, a 36-year-old transgender woman, was shot and killed on February 4, 2018, in Jacksonville, Florida. Her body was found at the Extended Stay America motel on Skinner Lake Drive with multiple gunshot wounds. Several shell casings and DNA evidence were recovered at the scene.

Investigators tied the killing to Sean Bernard Phoenix, then 22, a man with whom Walker had a prior relationship. Phoenix was arrested in late August 2019 on a warrant for murder and charged with second-degree murder; a tampering with evidence charge was later dropped. He admitted selling the murder weapon after the shooting and ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, receiving a 35-year prison sentence.

Walker’s death was the first of three transgender homicides in Jacksonville in 2018, followed by the killings of Antash’a Devine Sherrington English on June 1 and Cathalina Christina James on June 24. Those deaths intensified concern about violence against transgender people in the city.

If anyone knew Celine Walker or has information about her life or the circumstances leading up to February 4, 2018, please share what you know.