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WICHITA, Kan. — A 16-year-old boy faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of a transgender woman.

KAKE, a Wichita television station, reported the teenager allegedly stabbed Tyreece “Reecey” Walker to death on May 1 in the apartment complex in which she lived.

The teenager’s mother reportedly told police her son told her that Walker tried to sexually assault him.

“That is completely 100 percent out of character for Reece,” Walker’s friend told KAKE.

Reports indicate that Walker was a trans woman, even though the Wichita Police Department referred to her by her birth name.

Walker’s death comes 15 days after police found the body of Keyonna Monroe Blakeney, a trans woman of color from D.C., inside a Rockville, Md., hotel. Zella Ziona, another trans woman of color, was shot to death in Gaithersburg, Md., last October.