Derrick Lee Banner, a 26-year-old transgender woman also known as Derricka and Ms. Bow Bow, was found shot to death inside a vehicle on Rosetta Street in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 12, 2017. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police responded around 3 a.m. and pronounced Banner dead at the scene with an apparent gunshot wound.

Investigators say Banner and 18-year-old Montavious Sanchez Berry knew each other and had communicated previously. Berry was arrested and charged with murder, armed robbery, and shooting into an occupied vehicle and held without bail. A Mecklenburg County search warrant says Banner had contacted Berry to meet for sex and that her phone contained a video of them together about 30 minutes before the shooting. Another transgender woman, known as Tooker, told investigators she was present and heard Berry threaten Banner before two gunshots.

Police and the FBI said they found no evidence that Banner was killed because of her gender identity. Banner was reported as the 20th killing of a transgender person in the U.S. in 2017. Anyone with information about Banner or the events on Rosetta Street is asked to come forward.