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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jackson County prosecutors filed a murder charge on Monday against a man accused of killing a transgender woman in August of 2015.

Luis Sanchez, 27, faces first degree murder and armed criminal action charges in the homicide that happened in a parking lot on Independence Avenue.

Police found Tamara Dominguez on the ground, investigators say she had been run over three times. According to prosecutors, Sanchez's family told police Dominguez tried to rob Sanchez, leading to the murder.

According to a probable cause statement, a witness said he saw Dominguez get out of an all-black SUV and start walking on a nearby sidewalk. He then said he heard tires screech and saw suspected driver Sanchez hit Dominguez, stop and back up over her and then drove forward over her again before driving away.

A news release from the prosecutor's office says that police were tipped off to the location of the SUV, which was registered to Sanchez. When the SUV was inspected at a FBI facility Dominguez's DNA was found on the SUV's chassis.

Investigators interviewed Sanchez's family, who told them that he disappeared from Kansas City, police later tracking him to Colorado where was taken into custody.

Prosecutors have requested a $250,000 bond for Sanchez.

Caroline Gibbs, Founder of the Transgender Institute, says she’s outraged Sanchez isn’t also charged with a hate crime.

“Obviously that would be the case that this is in fact a hate crime, a homicide caused by hate,” she said.

Gibbs said Dominguez's murder and another stabbing death in Kansas City last year, were two of the 21 homicides involving transgender victims in the United States last year.

"Burning, beating, shooting, stabbing, you name the most horrific kinds of ways to die and this population endures it,” she said.

According to Missouri Revised Statutes 557.035 hate crimes are those which the state believes to be knowingly motivated because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability of the victim or victims. In order for enhanced penalties, the state must both plead and prove the motivating factors.