Eyewitness News Investigates: A murder that took the nation by storm and put a spotlight on the transgender community.

It’s been a year this month since K.C. Haggard, known to family as Kenton, was stabbed to death while walking down Blackstone Avenue in Fresno. For the first time on camera, the victim’s brother is speaking out as police still try to solve the murder.

“It’s a crime we don’t see,” says Augie Rubio, owner of Most Wanted Tattoos. July 23, 2015, just after 2 a.m. on a hot summer night, cameras capture Kenton Haggard’s final steps.

Fresno Police Lt. Burke Farrah says “It was a vicious attack. A vicious, sudden unprovoked attack.”

The 66-year-old man, dressed as a woman, was brutally killed – stabbed in the neck and left to die.

A heinous crime that captured the attention and sadness of the nation, and also revealed an identity the victim’s family knew little about.

The victim’s brother, Gerald Haggard, says, “I never saw him in women’s clothing.”

For the first time, Kenton’s brother Gerald is speaking to the camera about what he did know, referring to a phone call he received from Kenton’s roommates and landlord months prior.

“I know that he had been cross dressing and wearing woman’s clothes for four months,” says Gerald Haggard.

Gerald Haggard says his brother had battled drug and alcohol problems in the past, and despite their close relationship, cross dressing or gender issues were never something the two discussed.

As news of the murder traveled, a new name began to surface.

Zoyer Zyndel, a Fresno transgender advocate, says, “The tragic thing about the story of K.C. Haggard is she had just begun to live as her authentic self when her life was taken so tragically.”

Fresno’s transgender community confirms Kenton had recently been referring to herself as K.C. Zyndel, who leads a transgender support group, says K.C. had recently joined just weeks before she died, attending her first meeting at Ming’s Restaurant in the Tower District, and beginning her transition from man to woman. K.C.’s murder was instantly billed by many as a hate crime.

“I think she just existed and died for that,” says Zyndel.

Gerald Haggard says, “He is a victim. I don’t care what he was dressed as.”

In the days following the murder, surveillance video surfaced, and the public was able to watch as the crime unfolded; all taking place right outside of the window at Fresno’s Most Wanted Tattoo Shop.

“It’s an awful feeling,” says Augie Rubio.

The images are burned into Rubio’s mind. His store’s surveillance captured the murder, start to finish. The video, that’s hard to watch, shows K.C. walking down the street minding her own business when she’s stopped and called over by someone in a light colored Saturn SUV. K.C. approaches the car, talks to someone through the passenger window, and seconds later she is stabbed in the neck. The car drives away, as she’s tries to signal for help, but no one stops. She then takes her last steps and falls to the ground. Several people pass by, but still don’t help. Almost an hour later, she is taken away in an ambulance and eventually dies.

I’m concerned that somebody’s who’s violent has not been found,” says Gerald Haggard.

Nearly one year later, no arrests have been made in K.C., or Kenton’s, death.

Eyewitness News asked Fresno Police Lt. Burke Farrah if detectives have hit a wall. He responded by saying, “Here’s the thing about our investigation: The more we talk about it, the least effective it’s going to be.”

Early on, it seemed police had a lot to work with. There was surveillance video of the murder, as well as video ten hours later showing the suspect vehicle picking up a prostitute. Authorities even learned the name of the motel where the two went in hopes of matching DNA. Still, Farrah says it can take time to secure a case and a conviction, promising the family and the community that Haggard’s murder will be solved.

“The most important thing here is we’re going to catch that killer,” says Farrah.

Gerald says his brother is buried as Kenton, the way his family remembers him, while a faded memorial at the corner of Blackstone and Cornell honors the life of K.C.- a life many believe had just begun.

Two different names, one victim, and strong faith that justice will come.

“In this lifetime or the next,” says Gerald Haggard.