Sophie Arrieta Vasquez, a 36-year-old Latina transgender woman from Costa Rica, was found shot to death in the doorway of her Brookhaven, Georgia, apartment on May 4, 2021. Police responded to a report of a person shot at the Atlantic Brookhaven Apartments just after 8 a.m. and determined she had likely been killed hours earlier, around 3:45 a.m., after a neighbor heard several gunshots. Investigators recovered five shell casings and three bullets from a .380 caliber handgun at the scene.

Doorbell camera footage showed a man arriving at Vasquez’s apartment about 2:50 a.m., leaving roughly 30 minutes later, then returning at the time gunshots were heard. Her phone contained social media messages with 18-year-old Pedro Silva-Renteria of Norcross; she had sent him her address the night of the murder at his request. Authorities identified Silva-Renteria as a suspect within two weeks and issued arrest warrants; he was captured on August 5, 2021, in Grand Prairie, Texas, and extradited to Georgia. A search of his parents’ home reportedly turned up clothing matching the surveillance footage and the handgun used in the shooting.

The killing spurred vigils and calls for justice from LGBTQ and immigrant community advocates. Who has information that could help clarify what happened to Sophie Arrieta Vasquez?