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BALTIMORE — Police continue to investigate the murder of a transgender woman whose body was found last week in Northeast Baltimore.

Lt. Eric Kowalczyk of the Baltimore Police Department told members of its LGBT Advisory Council during a June 5 meeting at Chase Brexton Health Services that detectives currently have few leads into their investigation of the murder of Kandy Hall who was found in a field near a post office on the 1400 block of Fillmore Street in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood early on June 3.

Crime scene tape remained on a nearby fence several days after Hall’s body was discovered.

“This is a case that will not be solved without community help,” said Kowalczyk.

Equality Maryland Executive Director Carrie Evans, Center for Black Equity-Baltimore Executive Director Carlton Smith, Rev. Meredith Moise and Free State Legal Project Executive Director Aaron Merki are among those who attended the meeting.

Hall’s friend, Derrick Smith, told the Washington Blade that Hall, 40, was a hairdresser from Annapolis. He said they had known each other for more than three decades.

“I was there with her at the beginning of the process before she transitioned and everything,” said Smith. “I knew her as her little boy self and I knew her as Kandy.”

Smith told the Blade he hadn’t spoken with Hall in more than two years.

He said he found out about her death on Facebook.

“She was a very fun-loving, caring person,” said Smith. “She just enjoyed life. She lived life to the fullest because I guess her mindset was tomorrow’s not promised to anybody so I’m not going to wait until tomorrow to do this if I can do it today.”

Court records indicate Hall was charged with prostitution four times in Anne Arundel County between 2001-2003. The Baltimore Police Department arrested her twice on prostitution-related charges in 2010.

Court records also note Hall was charged with robbery, theft, trespassing, possession of marijuana, driving with an expired license and other minor offenses in Anne Arundel, Howard and Wicomico Counties since 1991.

Police have yet to publicly disclose a possible motive behind Hall’s murder, but Smith scoffed at suggestions prostitution may have contributed to her death.

“I get tired whenever a transgender person is murdered, [people] automatically connect it to prostitution,” he told the Blade. “She could have just been walking across the field and there could have been a random hate crime.”

Some of the more than two dozen people who attended the LGBT Advisory Council’s meeting at Chase Brexton also expressed concern about anti-trans violence they say continues to take place in Baltimore. WJZ reported the person who shot Kelly Young to death in East Baltimore in April 2013 remains at large.

“Because we do not know the motive behind Kandy’s death, the LGBT communities of Baltimore remain apprehensive and on guard,” said Evans as WJZ reported.

Anyone with information about Hall’s death is urged to call Metro Crime Stoppers at (866) 7-LOCKUP.