LAPD homicide detectives continued their search for leads in two fatal shootings this week of women who police say were engaged in sex work along the Figueroa Corridor in South L.A.
LAPD homicide detectives continued their search for leads in two fatal shootings this week of women who police say were engaged in sex work. The body of one victim, a transgender woman, was dumped onto a South Los Angeles street from a car that was seen fleeing the area. Police on Thursday said they had not made any arrests in either homicide.
Police say that sex workers who work in the area are usually picked up by customers, who drive to one of the motels on that stretch of Figueroa or park on a nearby street. Occasionally, these encounters turn violent for workers, police said, at the hands of customers or pimps. Jen Elizabeth, director of street engagement for the nonprofit the Sidewalk Project, cautioned against assuming that transgender people who are provocatively dressed are sex workers.
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