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Details appear to be a bit sketchy in regards to whether this may be a "hate" crime or whether Kandis was killed during an attempt to intervene in a domestic dispute. 

On Tuesday 11 August, at around 11.30pm, gunshots were heard outside an apartment complex in Phoenix. A transgender woman was killed and no one knows why.

According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), Kandis Capri, 35, was one of 16 transgender people to be murdered in the US this year.

“The only thing I know [for sure] is that my son was murdered,” Andria Gaines, Capri’s mother, told the Guardian. “[Kandis] was shot and I don’t know all the circumstances.”

Gaines continued: “[Capri] was at a lady’s apartment who he had been staying with for a couple weeks. And the only thing I know is that the car he had rented had been towed or something, or suspected of being towed away, so he left her apartment and was shot.”
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“His phone was missing and his purse missing,” she said. “So for me, with his lifestyle, you don’t know if it was hate crime.”

As the investigation into Capri’s death was ongoing, Phoenix officials did not immediately release information to the public. Local news outlets did not immediately report the story. Phoenix police did not respond to multiple inquiries from the Guardian.

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