NASHVILLE, Tennessee – An 18-year-old Nashville man wanted in connection with the shooting death of a transgender woman last November surrendered to police on Tuesday afternoon.

Mallory Porter was wanted for the murder of Gilbert "Gizzy" Fowler, and police said Porter will be charged with criminal homicide. Bail was set at $150,000.

Fowler, 24, was found shot to death on the morning of Nov. 12 beside her Buick Lacrosse parked in the driveway of an unoccupied home in the 3900 block of Lunn Drive in the Bordeaux area north of Nashville.

A review of Fowler’s phone records revealed that she had traveled to the area to meet an individual, and police said the forensic evidence shows that person was Porter. Detectives said Porter lied about his involvement when he was interviewed about the murder during the course of the investigation.

Nashville police are not investigating the murder as a hate crime, though LGBT activists disagree.

"A lot of these types of murders generally involve hatred toward a person's gender," said Marisa Richmond with the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition.

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To read more, click HERE and HERE. SDGLN uses proper pronouns for transgender people, but almost all of the media coverage on this case has improperly used pronouns to describe the victim.













