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Baltimore City homicide detectives are investigating the second unsolved killing of a transgender woman in the past month after a body was found Wednesday in the northwest part of the city.Investigators said officers who were serving a warrant just before 6 a.m. in the 3400 block of Piedmont Avenue found the body in an alley.Mobile users, tap here for the latest videoAuthorities said the body was that of a transgender woman who suffered severe trauma. Police said the victim identified herself as Mia Henderson, while the victim's government-issued identification said Kevin Long, 26.Police said it was too early to tell if the case is related to a similar one a month ago in which another transgender woman was killed. The body of 40-year-old Ricky Hall, known as Kandy, was found stabbed on June 4 in a field near Coldstream Park Elementary-Middle School in northeast Baltimore.The city's transgender community is getting very concerned."I'm sure our community is being targeted, that's not even new," said Monico Yorkman, a leader in Baltimore's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.On Wednesday afternoon, police held a news conference to discuss the matter. They said they didn't know a motive in Henderson's case yet and made no definitive connections between the two cases."We are going back several years to look at other cases that may have similarities to this case, including the one that happened about a month ago," said Lt. Col. David Reitz.Henderson's family said she was from North Carolina but had been living in Baltimore with relatives. They said she was a sweet person and have no idea why someone would want to kill her.NBA player Reggie Bullock is Henderson's half-brother. The L.A. Clippers player sent out two tweets on Wednesday. One said, "All I can say is my brother showed me how to live your OWN LIFE. Love you so much man. Gone but not forgotten #RipKevin." The second said, "At least I sent the last LOVE YOU to my brother."26996782Mary Chirico counsels people in Baltimore's transgender community. She said she's worried there's a serial murderer out there."That's what it's almost beginning to sound like," she said.Chirico said she hears about other serious crimes that the public often does not."There are assaults and murders and sex crimes, yes. There are a lot of them," she said. "We hear a lot of talk here, and I think (police) are sincere, but not enough is really being done."Police officials said they want the best for the LGBT community."Here in our city, for our transgender community, what we are here to say is that we are listening, that we're paying attention. We're responding. We take this very seriously. Our detectives are doing all that they can. I am pushing them hard, and I have high expectations to resolve these cases. We want to be strong partners within our transgender community," Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said.According to North Carolina court records, Henderson, who was registered as Long in that system, was convicted in 2008 of prostitution and served a one-and-a-half month jail sentence.Meanwhile, neighbors 11 News spoke to in the area where Henderson was found said police told them the victim was not from the neighborhood."They said the person didn't live around here. Somebody may have brought them around here. I don't know," resident Anthony Burton said.Residents in the quiet neighborhood said things like that don't usually happen."We've been around here for 20-plus years, and we’ve never seen it, so it’s strange to us as well as, I guess, to others," resident Pamela Talley said.Anyone with information on the case is urged to call city police at 410-396-2100.11 News reporter George Lettis contributed to this article